Blocked Sessions

[jshearer3]

We recently started using Captive Portal for all wireless traffic in a high school. It has been not even been 2 full days yet and it says its already blocked 33000 sessions. What exactly is it blocking? and how it is that high ???

[dmorris]

It blocks all sessions from IPs that aren't authenticated/logged in.

Is 33k high? I would guess it would get that high on most sites fairly quickly.

[sky-knight]

Considering I've seen a single Win7 box generate 100+ sessions just booting... that number seems rather low to me too.

For comparison, my office network consists of five client PCs, and a VM server with 6 VMs in it. My Untangle processed a bit more than 48k sessions yesterday.

So if I can generate 50k sessions with 12 PCs, what can you generate at a high school over two days?

[jshearer3]

so this is blocking anyone with a wireless device that is trying to access the internet without being authenticated? it just seems high for 354 students and not even running for 2 days.. could this be caused by phones picking up the wifi but not beable to use it?

[jshearer3]

Considering I've seen a single Win7 box generate 100+ sessions just booting... that number seems rather low to me too.

For comparison, my office network consists of five client PCs, and a VM server with 6 VMs in it. My Untangle processed a bit more than 48k sessions yesterday.

So if I can generate 50k sessions with 12 PCs, what can you generate at a high school over two days?

ohh ok ! i guess it makes sense now thanks!