I want to create a multi-gateway structure with the ZeroShell Captive Portal. What is the maximum number of captive gateways I can have on the same web login server?
Theoretically, there is no limit to the number of gateways you have on one web login server. In practice, however, the limit depends on multiple factors, including: the performances of the authentication server hardware (*); the average number of clients managed by the various captive gateways and on fault tolerance considerations. Note (*): you could easily make the mistake of considering the work load of the web login server to be less than that of a gateway, given the first should only provide an authentication web page and, subsequently, validate user access to the network. It is apparently a small job. Yet, things are not quite like this. Lots of software, especially those using p2p techniques, use non standard TCP 80 and 433 ports in an attempt to overcome possible firewalls at all costs. What network administrator in fact would ever close the outbound ports where default WWW traffic is encapsulated? Almost none. Skype, the well-known and most diffused system of VoIp telephony, i
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