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Haven't kept up if you've made earlier posts on this... but pfsense won't run on a celeron? Is that because of the BSD-ness of it all? TIL.
I'm 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! I've 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 that's the issue. It's been years since I've 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.
I have an old Qualys Sensor Appliance II. Was gonna turn it into a pfsense firewall, but it's reporting the CPU doesn't support long mode (no 64bit architecture) which is why it's out. OpenWRT has continued with 32bit support for longer, kinda its deal, so I'm thinking the box could become the core router for the openwrt mesh I'm building from scavenged tech. All their "boot disks" however are not booting. booo. booo.
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!!!
oh this is a fun one (I'm 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 doesn't support 64 bit architecture but it has SATA...and a 3gb IDE hdd??