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mysticgreg@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨months⊠agoHavenât kept up if youâve made earlier posts on this⌠but pfsense wonât run on a celeron? Is that because of the BSD-ness of it all? TIL.
Iâm running it on a total overkill 6th-gen i5 but thought the requirements were pretty lightweight. Depends on what you need to do with it I guess! Iâve also got the thing doing DNS, DHCP, ntopng and incoming VPN and the thing still sits at basically idle.
Are the requirements any lighter for opnsense? Still BSD though I guess, if thatâs the issue. Itâs been years since Iâve looked at this stuff, I had lots of stability issues on opnsense but it may have improved now.
I -have- found that yelling at it, followed by some percussive maintenance, sometimes helps.
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have an old Qualys Sensor Appliance II. Was gonna turn it into a pfsense firewall, but itâs reporting the CPU doesnât support long mode (no 64bit architecture) which is why itâs out. OpenWRT has continued with 32bit support for longer, kinda its deal, so Iâm thinking the box could become the core router for the openwrt mesh Iâm building from scavenged tech. All their âboot disksâ however are not booting. booo. booo.
mysticgreg@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
AHH ok. Balls to the no 64-bit support. That would be a nice little piece of kit to sit out of sight and handle this stuff.
My only OpenWRT experience was flashing it onto a Netgear wireless router once upon a time, and as I recall even that was a PITA. Good luck!!!
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
oh this is a fun one (Iâm trying lunbuntu on this for starters, then openwrt on top but may tweak it with an even smaller OS or just slack) - has to be a custom build. CPU doesnât support 64 bit architecture but it has SATAâŚand a 3gb IDE hdd??