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BIG problem. I have few users in captive portal, but, even if they are not authenticated, they "consume" resources in ZeroShell appliance, I discovered that EVERY request (in-to-out) on the port 80/443 make a process called CapPortAS to start.
Not only, but the maximun number of these processes is limitated by 152.
After this the captive portal stops to work, the timeout expires, and the users should authenticate again (without success because the CapPortAS again are saturated).

I found that this is not a new BUG, but should be solved years ago.

Remember that not only some (bad) worms inside the clients can determine this but also normal software like antivirus, software update, skype (it uses 443 port), so ZeroShell should be able to understand which is the true http traffic from a browser, from tcp traffic on port 80/443.

A normal PC not authenticated, with Skype (not yet authenticated), turns on 10-15 CapPortAS alone.

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I suspected that the problem is in some P2P software on the clients, so I did a

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I set an (empiric) value of 400 for MaxClients in