I use the "load balancer pool edit" page quite a lot, adding and
removing servers from my active pool. It gets kind of old typing the
IPs when re-adding servers, and I understand it needs a little
refinement anyway, so I propose some changes (which I am willing to
code). The basic idea is to have pfSense keep in the load balancer pool
configuration two types of servers (enabled and disabled) and be able to
quickly change the servers from "enabled" to "disabled" and vice versa.
I think this can be accomplished pretty easily, and I have a decent idea
of how to do it, having sorted through the code a little, but I just
want to make sure before I spend any real time on it. A mockup of how
the relevant portion of the interface would look (note the reordering
buttons that are mentioned on CVS Trac, for reordering the list for a
failover pool; I will do this also): http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1251841/
As for the config end of it, the servers' IP addresses are currently
stored as multiple entries that look like:
"<servers>ip.add.re.ss</servers>" -- in my changes, the addition would
be entries that look like
"<serversdisabled>ip.add.re.ss</serversdisabled>" (for saving the
"disabled" list). I didn't see any facility for parsing tag attributes
... please let me know if this is there somewhere and I'll make it more
like '<servers enabled="true">...' or so. It looks like pfSense will
just ignore the "disabled" entries when reading the configuration for
applying without any changes to filter.inc ... please let me know if I'm
missing anything here.
It all seems pretty straightforward and simple. Please let me know if
I'm missing anything. This is my first attempt at contributing to
pfsense; would these changes be useful to anyone other than me? Also,
which branch should I make patches for, etc., if so? Thanks in advance.
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Chris Daniel
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