My PC Engines ALIX running the (mumble) version of OpenBSD has been a great firewall. But now that it looks like PC Engines is wrapping up, it’s time to find something new. For a while I’ve suspected that the ALIX is a little underpowered. It’s harder to find 4G CF cards these days. Plus I want something with a HDMI port so I can put it on a KVM switch and don’t need to worry about serial port speeds.
So… here’s the order of operations:
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[Buy new hardware](/blog/2023-10-15 23:59:39 GMT-7/buying-new-hardware-for-an-openbsd-firewall)
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[Get OpenBSD running on the new hardware](/blog/2023-10-15 23:59:39 GMT-7-installing-openbsd-7-3-for-a-firewall)
Here goes!