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Try switching up search terms. I searched by "pfsense" which is a freeBSD distribution. You could also try "monowall" or "smoothwall" or any distro. Some ebayers try to include those as a selling...
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You sure can! In fact a few adventurous souls on the pfsense forums have it running on Lanner hardware. I'm pretty sure they've used the embedded version of it which just limits the writes since most...
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Well I may be saved. I have a Lanner FW-7560 that I've had laying around for almost a year now. Picked it up on Ebay for a great price. Anyway I've never been able to get it working 100% because it's...
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Hadn't realized they worked this way. So you can run a linix firewall like PFsense or Endian? I wonder if anyone has already compiled a version for Lanner hardware?
Also I'm not saying you don't...
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I have to install, that's been the main problem. The serial output works great until after the BIOS and POST screens go by; once it actually tries to boot something the serial ouput is useless....
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Wow, been following Raspberry Pi for a potential XBMC system, but had no clue that people were doing firewalls!!!
That doesn't seem too bad at all. I wish those Atom prices started coming down...
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Anyone go down this road recently? I don't need software recs so much as hardware recs. I also would like to stay at
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Your best bet may be an Atom system. You can get the basic Intel motherboard for ~ $75. I recently made one into a basic backup server for my mom's home business.
You may also want to consider a...
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Only thing I have to say is it would be of relevent interest to keep up with the Raspberry Pi development. There is quite a few people interested in using it as a DIY firewall:...
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$10 very well spent. System is up and running. Ran into some hiccups though. Apparently pfsense doesn't really like to create a switch/bridge from your extra ports. I ran into some serious config...
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Does the said Lanner device have an embedded OS or are you going to install?
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You can't just redirect the output via the boot loader? In GRUB, it's just a matter of appending this the kernel line
console=ttyS1,19200n8
(assuming those are the correct parameters of course)
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That Lanner is pretty cool. Any idea how much you paid for it? And is it loud?
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In case anyone cares, now that everything has been working just fine I've been tinkering with the idea of getting rid of the lanner box and installing pfsense onto my N36L. I took a very long look at...
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I picked it up on ebay for about $110/$120. Considering that something with these features new would be over $300/$400 I was happy with the purchase. It even came with pfsense preinstalled and...
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I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything. I guess I'll keep at it. Let us know how it goes for you.. I don't need a hardware firewall but for $100-150 I wouldn't mind getting one to...
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This would be it if you need something now. Lian Li makes some nice mini-itx cases..
There's nothing concrete yet but there definitely is the demand and would be ideal for the price and power...
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Maybe 1 WAN, 1 LAN and 1 DMZ?
I really want to like Linux and PFsense etc but the amount of tinkering to get things to work really makes me feel like I waste a ton of time.
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Yeah I just got it running with 1 WAN and 4 LANs, all the LANs are bridged. It was a nightmare getting it there, I found the solution on their forums.
That's the understatement of the century!...
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You probably could. But again, I suck at anything requiring a CLI or programming. I could probably do it but the effort on my part would far outweigh the $10 I spent.
EDIT: It appears you can also...
