Raspberry Untangle?

[Blingjug]

Everyone has probably already heard about the RaspberryPi awesomely small computer by now.

I know the ARM question has been asked before, but that was a while back now.

Surely there is a way to port untangle to this, even if its cut-down and purely with basic features (tho the addition of a USB network card would be needed)

[TirsoJRP]

Not even for testing...

1 - RPi CPU power has been compared to a 300mhz Pentium2
2 - Not enogh RAM, it is shared with GPU. 128/128 , 192/64 or 224/32.
3 - 1 single 10/100 interface connected to an USB2 HUB
4 - Try DD-WRT

[mrunkel]

As presently built, there is no way Untangle will work on that hardware. It's not just a matter of porting Untangle, but also having the processing power to inspect and record every network packet traversing the device.

We are constantly working at reducing the hardware requirements of the Untangle software, so.. maybe soon we can get on super cheap hardware similar to the Raspberry Pi.

[Blingjug]

I can understand that for a business environment it would have too much stress checking everything that passes through it, but surely for a home-based untangle that doesn't have exchange data going through it, or web servers etc. the hardware could handle it?

[jtvd78]

Try using pfsense, it is a much lighter firewall distro, because it is bsd based, not Linux based

[sky-knight]

PFSense isn't light because it's BSD based, it's light because it was designed that way. Heck using the word "light" and PFSense in the same sentence is wrong because PFSense was designed to be a HEAVIER version of m0n0wall. PFSense however is considerably lighter than Untangle, but it is also not a UTM.

M0n0wall supports this platform already, and has been delivering micro-sized workable devices for some time on the wrap platform.