> On Sep 9, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjc...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Tom! > > You would be better suited contacting Electric Sheep Fencing > (http://www.electricsheepfencing.com/) directly for your how-to but you can > start with a few basic concepts: > 1) This system is running FreeBSD 8.3 at present (future systems may be > running FreeBSD 9 or 10)
You shouldn't bother with the 2.1.x train. Go 2.2. There is not FreeBSD 9 based version of pfSense, (nor will there ever be). > 2) Your best option would be SQLite and PHP - why? because I’ve been > developing in PHP since 2.3 days (current deployment is 5.5 but I am not sure > what version is installed and supported on the system) and it’s pretty darn > user friendly. PHP is version 5.5 in pfSense software version 2.2. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.2_New_Features_and_Changes There is some additional information here. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_do_I_get_PHP_support_for_mysql,_sqlite,_sockets,_etc > 3) I would steer clear of C for one specific reason: it’s a royal pain in the > butt and most of your needs should be capable with PHP. I am of exactly the opposite opinion. I don't like PHP, but I am but one person. Right now we are focused on getting 2.2 to a production-ready state. After that, there will be a focus on performance, and sometime after that, in the 3.0 release planning, it is likely that a fundamental architecture re-design will occur. Since this type of work is expensive in terms of time (and yes, time is money), this is an early "heads up" to an event on the horizon. I won't say more now, other than I'm willing to reconsider every technical aspect of the product during this process. It is unlikely that 32-bit x86 machines are supported on the other side of that event. To be clear, 32-bit platforms continue to be viable for the 2.2 releases. (Cue up the always wrong idiots who claim that this time they're right, and pfSense will no longer be open source after a 3.0 in 5...4...3...2...) > Something to take note of is that not all installations are the same. Most of > my clients run on AMD Geode processors. My two firewalls at home are running > on Xeon 6-core VMs in VMWare ESXi, some people are running on dual and quad > core CPUs. RAM ranges from a minimum of 256MB on those supported ALIX boards > (I’m sure someone will correct me if I am wrong on this) up beyond 4GB (on > the new APU boards and VMs and other systems). Others have installed the > software on different desktop PCs running as dedicated systems - I have one > such that is running on an old Dell P4 with Hyper Threading. > > What experience do you have in application development - both desktop and web? > > — > Ryan > Publisher, d3photography.com > > > >> On Sep 9, 2014, at 22:39, Tom Mody <bug29...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have worked on pfsense this summer and I am really interested in >> developing apps for packet analysing , >> I have pfsense apps source code from github but didn't get how to work with >> it >> Please help me , how can I start writing apps for pfsense >> _______________________________________________ >> List mailing list >> List@lists.pfsense.org >> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
