On 3/28/06, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 29.03.2006 um 00:25 schrieb Josh Stompro: > > > Anyone have recommendations for 2.5 inch hard drives for this > > sort of application? > > > Hitachi. > http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/ > 79EC6FC280F57A2A86256D630067D507/$file/Travelstar_E7K60_100504.pdf > > > > > > Has anyone thought of how a pfSense manager would work, something > > that would control a large deployment of pfSense Firewalls. > > > > > I guess this is on the road-map (or in the heads of the developers) - > why else go with the overhead of XML-RPC for the communication > between front-end and backend? At least, that's what I make
Yep. The best part about the XML-RPC is that we don't have to be the only ones writing it :) If I ever get a chance to work on it, I'm planning on just ripping the existing interface and modding write_config() to do an XML-RPC call to the firewall to write it (ditto for the reading). And then put up a small wrapper to choose which firewall to maintain. I'm oversimplifying because I haven't really spent alot of time thinking about the gotcha's, but that's the general concept. Ultimately, it'd be nice to have a portable UI that doesn't require a "management server", but that would only be useful for people that manage a number of machines by themselves, not terribly useful for a management team of more than one (IMO). --Bill
