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    hacking pfSense on Watchguard M290

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      droid.dron
      last edited by droid.dron

      Hi guys,

      Before, I run all my pfSense installations on legacy WatchGuard hardware, it always worked perfect and I always was able find answer here for hardware mods and technical details (thank to @stephenw10 and other folks). Since the world slowly moving to ARM architecture, I recently purchased M290 (it's on my way) which might be a new hardware line. I wondered if you guys ever had experience to hack this hardware to enable pfSense on it?

      Thank you guys!

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Hmm, I may have bid on that yesterday! 🤔

        But no you won't be able to run pfSense on there anytime soon because it's not an x86 platfom, it's an arm64 device.
        So that would require significant development work. I would be looking at OpenWRT first but even there some work will likely be needed. I doubt anyone has that hardware yet as it's still current.

        Steve

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          droid.dron @stephenw10
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          Thank you @stephenw10! Then it's even more interesting :-)

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Breaking new ground! 😉

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