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      toomeek
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      Hello, friend of mine was able to run OpenWRT on following device:
      http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-MR3020
      TP-Link TL-MR3020. I did some look inside what hardware it has and now I'm wondering:
      will it able to run pfSense? It's Atheros AR9330 based device with 32MB of RAM.

      I think answer is simple: NO. But I will ask anyway..
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        wallabybob
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        @TooMeeK:

        Hello, friend of mine was able to run OpenWRT on following device:
        http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-MR3020
        TP-Link TL-MR3020. I did some look inside what hardware it has and now I'm wondering:
        will it able to run pfSense?

        No, the CPU is not a x86 its a MIPS.

        The 32MB RAM is probably way too small for pfSense.

        They are nice little units though.

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          Efonnes
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          It is possible to run pfSense on MIPS if you have a way to build it and fix up the builder scripts to work for it.  If someone made a usable pfSense image for a MIPS device (which would need to be built special for the model of the device you would run it on), it would need to be for a device that has at least 128 MB of RAM and a way to connect external storage (some do exist).

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