Use Existing Firewall Hardware??
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Hi All,
Curious if anyone has had luck re-purposing old Firewall hardware to use with pfsense? Currently I have the following 3 firewalls sitting with other IT junk:
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Netgear FVS124G
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Juniper SSG 5
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Fortinet 60B
I'd like to install pfsense on one of these boxes and save the trouble of getting other hardware. I have a PTP connection between two locations, both using pfsense and it works great. One location, however, is running on an old Dell desktop that I'd like to replace.
Thanks all!
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pfSense is a x86 software based firewall, if this hardware will be also based on x86 hardware too it might be
running with luck, if not you should watch out for other hardware. -
Thanks for the Post Frank…pretty sure my old firewalls don't run x86 so I'll go a different route.
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You may get lucky with the Fortinet (maybe) Open it up and see whats inside. I can pretty much say no go with the Juniper SSG, may as well use it as a doorstop.
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I know the fortinet uses some x86 parts but they also use a LOT of custom ASIC chips in the boxes as well for packet processing and stuff. You can try but it may be very difficult. I know the 60b only has 256MB of ram which will be quite limiting. The post in the fortinet forums below may be of some help with the specs.
https://forum.fortinet.com/tm.aspx?m=76778