The preceding guide should be enough to get captive portal running on your network. There are, however, many other settings on the captive portal configuration. Most of them can be kept at their default settings most of the time, but in certain circumstances they can be altered to ensure the captive portal works smoothly.
On the main captive portal configuration page under the Interfaces list box is the Maximum concurrent connections edit box. This setting controls not how many users can be logged into the captive portal, but rather how many concurrent connections are allowed per IP address.
The next two settings are Idle Timeout (Minutes) which controls how long it is before an idle client is disconnected, while Hard Timeout ...
