Firewall Watchguard Firebox X500‏ –> will it run pfsense?

travler

hey there.

the subject says it all.
I have a bought a Firewall Watchguard Firebox X500‏ and i would love to use it for pfsense.
will it run on this ?
anyone has expirience with this?

thx in andvance 4 the feedback.

stephenw10

Yes and yes. :)

The hardware in the original X-Core boxes is at the bottom end of what's required to run pfSense, upgrade the RAM to 512MB if you have any.
Look here:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox
Then if you want some bedtime reading look here:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7458.0.html

Come back with questions. ;)

Steve

travler

thx a lot m8.

Still have some questions.
upgrade the ram.
do you mean the CF card or actual rams like on a computer?

if they are actual rams (PC like) witch type of rams are they? DDR? DDR2 …?

thx in advance.

stephenw10

Actual RAM. The X-Core uses SDRAM, it's old. ;) It's also really quite fussy about what DIMMs you can use. There are a number of posts about it in that very long thread and I've also put a few known examples in the docs:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox#Further_Enhancements

You can run it with the standard 256MB but that really is the minium requirement for pfSense. You shouldn't exepect to be able to run any hungry packages. The two X-Core boxes I've had both ran fine with 256MB, I never had lack of memory problems, but I only ran them in default configuration.

Steve