Symantec Network Security 7120
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Just wanted to get this into the board for anyone else who may encounter it.
As a long-time employee of Symantec, I either have acquired or purchased Symantec hardware from my company's former life as a firewall/gateway security company. I particularly like the 1600 series, due to their balance of power and performance. I take out the hard drive and put in a PC Engines CompactFlash to IDE adapter for these.
I recently purchased a Symantec Network Security 7120 appliance, from well-known and reputable eBay vendor "koukobin" who is known for selling really great refurbished and recycled gear with pfSense pre-installed.
The SNS 7120 was a network intrusion prevention and detection appliance. It features a Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz, 2GB DDR RAM, 6x INTEL 82551 Ethernet ports, a CompactFlash slot (via a built-in IDE to CF adapter), and is capable of supporting an internal IDE hard drive.
Only negative about the hardware is that it doesn't support gigabit ethernet. Not a big deal for me really.
There is a an internal header for VGA, but I haven't been able to obtain output.
If you're using CompactFlash, you'll need to disable DMA. See the following for instructions:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Booting_Options
I don't know if this holds true for hard drives attached to the internal IDE connection. I'll have to test.
I haven't found a way to use the LCD. It's a custom manufactured component.
More details later. Just wanted to get this posted for documentation and searching.
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Nice. :)
How similar to the 5420 is this?
I'm fairly sure someone managed to get the lcd going on that.Steve
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Nice. :)
How similar to the 5420 is this?
I'm fairly sure someone managed to get the lcd going on that.I don't have a 54xx for side-to-side comparison, but I believe they're extremely similar, if not running on the same motherboard.
I'll give the LCD a shot following the info. from this forum thread:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,17843.30.html
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Unlike the Symantec 54xx, there is no PCI slot on the 7120 motherboard.
There is a 15 pin VGA header, but video needs to be enabled in BIOS.
The following thread may be of assistance with this: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,17843.30.html
I'll have to give it a shot at some point and report back, along with working to get the LCD working.
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I am also using the 7120, in my home lab. Got it off of Ebay for $75.00.
Installing pfsense was exactly the same as the instruction for the 5420 except I did not disable ACPI.
I have ditched it for a dell poweredge 850 with gigabit NIC(6).Currently working on getting pfsense on my HP Neoware e140 and e100.
