ISCSI support
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I was wondering if anyone had built a PF-Sense server and used a iSCSI storage instead of a local hard drive.
RC ???
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AFAIK native support for iSCSI didn't appear until FreeBSD 7.0.
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I was looking a purchasing nic that had the iSCSI suppot in it. It would connect on startup and it would show up as a avaiable hd. what are your thoughts based on that info?
rc
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Personally, I think it's a bad idea (hey, you asked ;) ).
You've just taken a self-contained system that's critical to your connectivity, and made it reliant on an external system and your network infrastructure. The odds of something going wrong just went sharply up.
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strictly for experimentation. Being able to have different iSCSI volumes defined for a single test machine and the ablitilty to change quickly based on what you are working on.
RC
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Ah, now that makes sense and I can see the value in a test environment. I use VMWare much the same way (with all the security issues it brings).