2015-12-02 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] 2500 users

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
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UTC Datetime: 2015-12-02 14:04:32 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 07:04:32 +1000

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Hi Nazanin

I'm not aware of anyone trying to run that many users through the same
server. In theory, with enough grunt, I expect a single server could do it.
In reality, you may want to look through the posts for those who have done
"cloud grase" where the Grase server has multiple servers that connect back
to it, but the traffic flows through each of the access servers, and the
Grase server just does the Radius Server and MySQL servers (and probably
the captive portal website as well).
I do have plans to make it easier to setup like this in the future, but we
aren't there yet.

2500 concurrent users, what bandwidth do you expect to give them? From a
networking point of view, you probably have a large connection, and big
routers. Possibly even redundant routers. Grase is no different, it's a
router, so you need to do the same as you would with normal routers. Scale
things up, provide redundancy. Split the load somehow.

It's not Grase that you need to be thinking about, it's your networking
hardware, and then how Grase fits in with your hardware. No point pushing
all those users through a single CPU, 2GB RAM, old computer running Grase.
Scale Grase in the same way you'd scale normal network routers (and
remember, that Grase is doing more than just routing, so needs to scale for
all the functions it does)

Regards

Tim

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 5:22 PM, nazanin behroozian <
na***n@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Tim and Grase users :
>
> I have been using Grase hotspot on different sites till now. I have a new
> project which includes 2500 concurrent users form 120 access points. I want
> to know if this is technically possible for grase to handle 2500 users ?
> and is there any specific requirement for the server computer running the
> grase ?
>
> Many Thanks
> Nazanin
>
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