Hi Jake, Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote: > I am dealing with wireless through the RADIUS module, I will have > approx. 100 endpoints, containing about 2000 clients. The clients will > be forced to register ONCE each semester (about 3 months), for our > initial foray we will ONLY be using registration, no snort or Nessus … > yet : ) > > My question is this, what kind of hardware do I need to support this > number of clients and endpoints?
I'm assuming you are only asking about Server hardware and not wireless controllers here. What's the best bang for the buck for a server nowadays? A quad-core with 4 Gb of ram and fast disks should be enough and give you room for growth. Unfortunately we don't have hard numbers. I've seen beasts (16 core 24 Gb of ram) running on bigger wireless networks with snort (taking one full core to analyze 10-20Mbps traffic) and the machine is basically idle. Also seen dual cores running on bigger wireless networks (around 5000 clients) without snort smoothly. Snort does make a big difference if you don't have several cores / CPUs. I hope this helps. Have a nice day! -- Olivier Bilodeau [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 *115 :: www.inverse.ca Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
