General Questions

Hi all,

I've been using m0n0wall in several projects, but all of them with a user base of less than 100 users.

Now I'm involved in a project where the aim is to serve a couple thousand users with free WLAN at an event. The wireless systems will be handled by other systems, but the project leader wants a captive portal to redirect users to the event's terms of use page.

Is m0n0wall able to serve this many users on a fairly fast line, at least 20-50 Mbps? The hardware is no issue, I’m planning on using HP Proliant servers in this configuration, they should be powerful enough.

Best regard
Harald

what is the speed of your Proliant?  If it's fairly new and you are using Intel NICs I would think you would be in good shape.  Let us know how it worked out.

CS...

Yes, I'll post a report if the project is going through with this.

In any case, I'm able to use a brand new Proliant G5 with HP (Intel branded) NICs. That means quad core Xeon with at least 2 GB RAM.

Not that m0n0wall will use all those resources, but we'll use the servers for something else after the event.

That's way more than adequate hardware, there are some very large CP deployments so you aren't in uncharted territory.