Using 32bit Dell Optiplex GX620, I added an additional Ethernet Card. In only a few moments, the drive was ready for me to begin the installation. Sudo dd if=ipfire-2.21. of=/dev/sdd bs=16k In the last few lines, I was able to identify the drive. In order to flash it to the drive, I first checked to ensure that I wrote it to the correct drive, I plugged in the drive and ran in terminal. The instructions for installation where a little light and perhaps I need to help out with it. In order to write the image to the flash drive, I had to check to see what drive I used the dd command as I would have done with pfSense. Once downloaded I verified the image checksum To match my hardware situation, I downloaded the 32 bit version of the Flash Image I think I may end up using this method for a future project. I chose the flash image, I could have used the ISO, if I would have removed the drive and written the image directly to that drive. Should you be viewing this at a much later date, as in after a new version release click here and select Download from the menu. To begin the process, I downloaded the IPfire from here: This will hopefully help bridge some of the knowledge gaps you may have should you decide to try IPFire and an example of what works for me. This is not a comparison to pfSense that is another project of which is in progress. Also note, immediately before starting this IPFire project, I set up a pfSense box so my expectations were now set. The documentation on this project needs some help, it took me some trial and error along with muddling my way through areas I didn’t fully understand to get it set up exactly as I want. An Open Source firewall based on Linux that is easy to use, high performant and extensible which makes it usable to a large audience. IPFire, in short, could be considered the Linux version of the FreeBSD based pfSense. After some searching, testing, more searching and testing, my solution is IPFire. After all, they have more horsepower than any consumer based MIPS or ARM Router / Firewalls. I wanted to make one of these an edge device. Initially, I was going with pfSense and set a machine up for that purpose but I came upon 7 32bit Dell Optiplex GX620 machine so I looked for a suitable solution. I started searching for an edge device solution for my home I could put on x86 hardware after my Linksys E2000 started giving me problems.
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