This page describes editing the XML directly. The Firebrick does have a Web User Interface too. Both can be used to edit the config, as they edit the same underlying XML.

These instructions are mostly applicable to the 2500 too. The difference between the 2700 and the 2500 is that:

The 2700 has a USB port so supports 3G fallback, the 2500 does not have a USB port.
The 2700 has faster throughput - 350Mb/s on the 2700 compared to 100Mb/s on the 2500.

Factory Default Config

The default config of a FireBrick looks like this:

Config Run Through

The FireBrick uses XML version 1.0 and UTF-8 encoding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

FireBrick is running factory release firmware 1.31.000 (Janus):

<config xmlns="http://firebrick.ltd.uk/xml/fb2700/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://firebrick.ltd.uk/xml/fb2700/ http://firebrick.ltd.uk/download/FB2701/xml/fb2700/1.31.000.xsd" 
timestamp="2014-08-08T09:00:00Z" patch="19726">

System:

FireBrick with basic system config. Automatic updates to new factory release firmware are enabled by default:

<system name="FireBrick" contact="AAISP Subscriber" log-panic="fb-support" comment="FireBrick 2700"/>

Same as above but automatic firmware updates are disabled:

<system name="FireBrick" contact="AAISP Subscriber" log-panic="fb-support" sw-update="false" comment="FireBrick 2700"/>

User:

Admin account with password "secret". Login idle timeout is "5:00". Config access level is "full". Login level is "ADMIN".

<user name="Admin" password="SHA1#D57E4F7EE70491BBD274B5F71185A2A577B0DAFBF558BD"/>

Same as above but login idle timeout is disabled:

<user name="Admin" password="SHA1#D57E4F7EE70491BBD274B5F71185A2A577B0DAFBF558BD" timeout="0"/>

Complete Config Example