Actually both and even with a later mini_httpd fix that Manuel had sent
me (that adds support for per ip limitations)

It's included in the latest radius2 builds

J.

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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Lee Sharp [mailto:leesharp at hal dash pc dot org]
> Verzonden: zaterdag 3 december 2005 4:35
> Aan: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Onderwerp: Re: [m0n0wall] Captive portal with SSL- revisited
> 
> Isn't this built into Jonathan's RADIUS builds?  The fix to allow more
> connections, I mean...
> 
>                         Lee
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Fischer" <dave dot fischer at ridgewater dot edu>
> To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:13 PM
> Subject: [m0n0wall] Captive portal with SSL- revisited
> 
> 
> The fix Manuel suggested to try seems to correct the problem on the 3
M0n0
> boxes that I'm running....
> 
> They've been running flawlessly for me since replacing the mini_httpd
> binary.  One of mine was dying a few times each day.
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> There's a rare issue when the maximum number of concurrent
> connections to mini_httpd is reached, and one more connection is
> accepted, but no request is ever received on that connection (could
> be due to a weird client, or one with a flaky [wireless?]
> connection). Then an ALRM signal will eventually be triggered to
> handle the read timeout, causing the parent process to exit.
> 
> <http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads/mini_httpd.cpfix2> is a version of
> mini_httpd that avoids this by simply closing the connection if it's
> overloaded, instead of trying to send a 503 message to the client. Of
> course if that happens frequently (e.g. because of many people using
> the captive portal, or misconfigured clients - Windows Auto Update
> Client, for example), the number of concurrent connections must be
> increased (I could envision a special option to set the number of
> connections to a higher value than 16 on machines that have the
> appropriate amount of RAM, and also another feature to limit the
> number of concurrent connections per IP address).
> 
> Upload mini_httpd.cpfix2 through /exec.php, then run the following
> commands:
> 
> mv /usr/local/sbin/mini_httpd /usr/local/sbin/mini_httpd.old
> cp /tmp/mini_httpd.cpfix2 /usr/local/sbin/mini_httpd
> chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/mini_httpd
> 
> Then restart the captive portal by clicking "Save" on the setup page.
> Don't restart m0n0wall, as that will cause the modified mini_httpd
> binary to be lost.
> 
> - Manuel
> 
> 
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