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M0n0wall 1.8.1 released

35 points by gonzo 13y ago

silasb 13y ago
I remember the first time I installed m0n0wall on a p3 500Mhz in high school and being stunned how beautiful everything worked. Nowadays I mostly use PFSense or Vyatta.
dsr_ 13y ago
Minimum hardware requirements: "This version (any platform) requires at least 128 MB RAM and a disk/CF size of 32 MB or more." It's a shame this isn't portable to ARM systems, where $50-100 buys you much more than that. Buying a small, low power x86 system in quantity 1 raises the overall price significantly.
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- mmastrac 13y ago
  Damn.. this is one of the best firewalls available that I haven't used because it won't work on the embedded hardware I have. I'd (figuratively) kill for this on a Pi.
  - nasalgoat 13y ago
    It's primarily a GUI on existing OS tools - you could create a version that uses Linux commands instead of FreeBSD.
dstroot 13y ago
Went to PFSense and never looked back.
axx 13y ago
Interesting fact: m0n0wall is made by the same guys that make Threema: https://threema.ch/de/ https://threema.ch/de/
whalesalad 13y ago
Every once and a while I get lost in the vortex that is the gallery of user submitted M0n0 devices: http://m0n0.ch/wall/gallery.php http://m0n0.ch/wall/gallery.php
MPSimmons 13y ago
Is there an API for making changes? That's the single biggest annoyance with my current solution in that space, pfSense. Automating changes is terrible. I didn't see it in the feature list, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
chrissnell 13y ago
I was a long-time m0n0wall user on the Soekris platform but switched to pfSense running in a VM under ESXi last year because the little Soekris just couldn't keep up with modern home internet speeds. In the end, it was a very positive change and I wrote a blog entry on the somewhat peculiar hardware setup that I chose to replace the little Soekris: http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-all-trades-home-server http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-al...

35 points by gonzo 13y ago

I remember the first time I installed m0n0wall on a p3 500Mhz in high school and being stunned how beautiful everything worked. Nowadays I mostly use PFSense or Vyatta.

dsr_ 13y ago

Minimum hardware requirements: "This version (any platform) requires at least 128 MB RAM and a disk/CF size of 32 MB or more." It's a shame this isn't portable to ARM systems, where $50-100 buys you much more than that. Buying a small, low power x86 system in quantity 1 raises the overall price significantly.

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mmastrac 13y ago
Damn.. this is one of the best firewalls available that I haven't used because it won't work on the embedded hardware I have. I'd (figuratively) kill for this on a Pi.
- nasalgoat 13y ago
  It's primarily a GUI on existing OS tools - you could create a version that uses Linux commands instead of FreeBSD.

dstroot 13y ago

Went to PFSense and never looked back.

axx 13y ago

Interesting fact: m0n0wall is made by the same guys that make Threema: https://threema.ch/de/ https://threema.ch/de/

whalesalad 13y ago

Every once and a while I get lost in the vortex that is the gallery of user submitted M0n0 devices: http://m0n0.ch/wall/gallery.php http://m0n0.ch/wall/gallery.php

MPSimmons 13y ago

Is there an API for making changes? That's the single biggest annoyance with my current solution in that space, pfSense. Automating changes is terrible. I didn't see it in the feature list, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

chrissnell 13y ago

I was a long-time m0n0wall user on the Soekris platform but switched to pfSense running in a VM under ESXi last year because the little Soekris just couldn't keep up with modern home internet speeds. In the end, it was a very positive change and I wrote a blog entry on the somewhat peculiar hardware setup that I chose to replace the little Soekris: http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-all-trades-home-server http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-al...