[isf-wifidog] Wifidog for real HEAVY usage

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2009-9-24 23:36, Gabe Sawhney wrote:
> Almost always when we've set up wifi at conferences, we've ended up
> turning off the wifidog gateway, and just running in 'open' mode.
> Either it's because use was heavy and the auth server was responding
> slowly (we have a modest machine), or people got confused by the captive
> portal, or the bandwidth demand was greater than the venue's Internet
> connection could support, so we turned off the portal just to reduce the
> hassle for users.

The gateway should be able to handle that load without too much 
problems. You may need to use a custom portal. It shouldn't be too hard 
to test that with a funkload setup.

Wichert.

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