{"id":290,"date":"2014-11-22T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-11-22T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T20:26:08","slug":"pfsense-on-firebox-x500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/22\/pfsense-on-firebox-x500\/","title":{"rendered":"pfSense on Firebox X500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4881.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4881-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4881\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4881-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4881-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_4881.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Previously I had run pfSense as my firewall \/ router on a discarded Celeron 700mhz machine, with a lot of spare NICs in the PCI slots.  Browsing around the local Goodwill and I stumbled upon this Watchguard Firebox X500 for $10.  Finally, real rackmount gear for my 2&#215;4 server rack!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure whatever software comes on this thing is great and wonderful, but I didn&#8217;t even try to use it.  First step if you have one of these &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.pfsense.org\/index.php\/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox\">hop on over to the pfSense Firebox wiki page<\/a> and do some research.  Popped open the case, swapped in a 2gb CF card with the pfSense no-VGA embedded image, and set to configuring it.  The most difficult part of all this was getting a USB to Serial cable that worked&#8230; and then a Null Modem cable&#8230; and then having to do the configuration in a virtualized Windows XP machine because there are no OSX drivers for the WCH341 chip in my cheap eBay usb-serial converter.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it&#8217;s all set up I can easily access via ssh or http, so serial access isn&#8217;t as important.  The hardware in this is just a 1.2ghz Celeron, with 10\/100 Ethernet ports and some 256mb RAM.  Obsolete, yes, but that red paint job never goes out of style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously I had run pfSense as my firewall \/ router on a discarded Celeron 700mhz machine, with a lot of spare NICs in the PCI slots. Browsing around the local Goodwill and I stumbled upon this Watchguard Firebox X500 for $10. Finally, real rackmount gear for my 2&#215;4 server rack! I&#8217;m sure whatever software comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}