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    Is it possible to install pfsense on fortiwifi60b

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by stephenw10

      Info appears to be from here: https://forum.fortinet.com/tm.aspx?m=76778

      Or here maybe: https://forum.fortinet.com/tm.aspx?m=100451
      Though that specifically lists a 64MB CF card so perhaps this is different hardware.

      Steve

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      • provelsP
        provels
        last edited by provels

        Here's the inside of a FortiGATE 60B, possibly similar.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTeQZZyaPXI
        (Bring your Dramamine...)

        Perhaps it has embedded 64MB flash?

        Peder

        MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
        BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by stephenw10

          Maybe. In which case there's almost no chance of running pfSense on it. Unless maybe you could boot from CF card in the PCMCIA slot. Booting from PCMCIA is not common though. Or maybe from USB.

          Steve

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          • provelsP
            provels @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 Be too slow anyway. On the pfSense Dashboard page, mine runs 100% CPU just displaying the graphs... Proof of concept, fine, otherwise of no real use.

            Peder

            MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
            BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Yeah, it would be interesting for the sake of a challenge but of little practical purpose.
              Still I like a challenge. ๐Ÿ˜‰

              Steve

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                firefox
                last edited by firefox

                In connection with my question, how did you find the information about the router?
                My question was general not specific to Fortinet
                Because I was looking for information about Check Point's router about its hardware

                So I asked

                As for the fortinet, I already got the answer and also the checkpoint
                I'll wait until I get some hardware to fit

                stephenw10
                Unable to upload image of the checkpoint router (1.5 MB)

                How to make a quote in the new interface?

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                • provelsP
                  provels @firefox
                  last edited by

                  @firefox said in [Is it possible to install pfsense on fortiwifi60b]
                  [How to make a quote in the new interface?]
                  On the right, where it says "Quote"... ==>

                  Peder

                  MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
                  BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    There is no single site that lists this stuff, you just have to search for likely terms.

                    Anything out there someone has probably already looked into so might be listed on, for example, openwrt or dd-wrt HCLs. The openwrt forum recently crashed badly and much info was lost. ๐Ÿ˜ž

                    deviwiki is a good site for a lot of stuff. But in the fortigate case is was listed on their own forum.

                    If the image is too large you could resize it or upload it to some image hosting site and link to that.

                    Steve

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                      firefox
                      last edited by

                      here is the image of checkpoint router

                      0_1529114684652_Screenshot from 2018-06-15 16-291-15.jpg

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Nothing too exciting to see there. Very unlikely you could ever get pfSense running on there. It's not x86 and probably doesn't have enough RAM to operate usefully anyway.
                        If you want to experiment with it I'd look at openwrt/LEDE as a suitable target OS.

                        Steve

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