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    RaspberryPi model 2 6x the power for running pfsense on

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    • K Offline
      kejianshi
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      Since its no longer April 1st, I need to recant my former BS post about pfsense supporting ARM - haha.

      Maybe in a decade (-:

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Despite reading fake news stories all day yesterday I confess you totally got me with this.  ::)

        Steve

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          kejianshi
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          I tied for low key.  Hope it wasn't too irritating to the serious folks.  (-:

          Maybe if we are lucky it might even happen eventually.  haha

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            @kejianshi:

            I tied for low key.  Hope it wasn't too irritating to the serious folks.  (-:

            Maybe if we are lucky it might even happen eventually.  haha

            It already runs, it's just not released.  Waiting to officially roll from PBIs to pkg(ng).

            I told you yesterday that I own several hundred BBB (they're for sale, but I've paid for them).

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              kejianshi
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              Good luck with the BBBs.

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                sbkenn
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                I too, am interested in running pfsense on a Pi2, but was thinking of connecting a ENC28J60, maybe two, to avoid the on-board NIC concerns,  I exclusively use 3G for my web access, so throughput isn't likely to be a problem.  I also live on a boat with no shore power, so power consumption is kept to a minimum.

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Ah! Well you have a fairly unusual requirement then. Not unique though. Ask Phil who operates a network of mostly solar powered pfSense boxes. Most of them ALIX boxes. You can probably find one second hand for very little and they use <5W.

                  Steve

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