Post by unaclocker on Jul 17, 2015 23:01:29 GMT
Hey guys, I remember running Monowall back in the day. Heard about your project on BSDNow recently. I'm currently running pfSense on an old AMD64 machine I built back in 2006. Stupid thing has some kind of driver problem with the SATA controller, so from time to time, it'll lock up with some kind of SATA error and stop working. I heard mention that your distro doesn't write to the drive after booting, so that'd certainly solve my SATA problem. But I've been toying with the idea of using this worthless Intel Galileo board as a router. It's a 400ish MHz Atom CPU, and like 512mb ram. It runs off a microSD card, has a built in 100mbit NIC, and a mini PCI-e slot so I could toss in a Gigabit one if I need to in the future. Currently my internet connection is only 65-75mbit (Comcast standard issue). It's got USB and I have a USB 100mbit adapter I was planning on using as the second NIC. It normally runs Linux, though Microsoft sent out some running an embedded version of Windows. It has a serial console, and no video output. I already have it, so I'd love to make it run SmallWall, I think it'd be a perfect match if it can support the NIC's.
I know this is an oddball idea, I don't need to be berated about it. It's better than a Raspberry Pi, and I ran one of those with OpenWRT on it for a year (it had some epic uptime, almost made it a full year, but the lack of security updates started to freak me out). I'll certainly do a SpeedTest comparison between the current hardware and this thing, if I can get it to boot at all. Just curious if anyone was already doing it or had any constructive thoughts.
I know this is an oddball idea, I don't need to be berated about it. It's better than a Raspberry Pi, and I ran one of those with OpenWRT on it for a year (it had some epic uptime, almost made it a full year, but the lack of security updates started to freak me out). I'll certainly do a SpeedTest comparison between the current hardware and this thing, if I can get it to boot at all. Just curious if anyone was already doing it or had any constructive thoughts.
