2011-08-21 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] City Wide Hotspot

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From: Raul Ocampo <sp***d@ibahn.net.ph>
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UTC Datetime: 2011-08-21 23:24:17 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:24:17 +0800

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Thanks Tim for your inputs.

BTW we plan to use Ubiquiti equipment for the outdoor APs, no authentication
on Layer 2 since this will be free WiFi. All authentication will be on 
the Grase Hotspot.
I have managed to modify configs of Grase to support VLANs, will have 
different VLANs/subnets
per Wireless Sector.
Anyway if this project pushes thru will get the performance statistics.



On 8/22/11 2:03 PM, Timothy White wrote:
> Not currently.
> The actual GRASE interface can manage as many users as you want. The
> limitations are the network throughput of the machine, coova chilli
> and in some ways the radius server due to all the accounting updates.
> Look for performance on coova chilli and how many users it can handle,
> and you'll get an idea of how many you can handle with GRASE.
> However, I've not designed grase's interface with 1000's of users in
> mind, even though the backends can handle it.
>
> Usually when running networks that might have more than say 200 user
> on it, you'd be running a number of coova chilli machines as gateways,
> rather than having all that traffic come back to a single machine.
> You'd also be running the radius server(s) on separate machines to the
> coova chilli gateways. And most likely, you'd have spent lots of money
> on cisco hardware, or at least hardware that does WPA-EAP so users can
> login securely.
>
> Having said all that, I see no reason that you couldn't have a few
> hundred users off one coova chilli machine if it's got enough grunt,
> enough network bandwidth, and enough ram. Currently the packages I'm
> building only have a subnet of 254 ip addresses, so that's your limit
> atm, but that is easily changed in the configs.
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Raul Ocampo<sp***d@ibahn.net>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anybody using Grase in Citywide Hotspot environment ?
>> Just wanted to get feedback regarding performance, like how many online
>> users can it handle ...
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>
>>
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