Hardware

Hi

New to the forum so apologies if I make any faux pars..

I have acquired an old packeteer 1400 appliance with a 2mb licence so not much good for anything and I have no intentions of lining buecoats pockets with a licence upgrade.!!

I was wondering if I could install monowall on this appliance, it has a CF slot which I presume is where the OS resides (cant check at mo cos CF reader gone US) 4 network ports and 512mb RAM so to the untrained eye looks a perfect host for monowall

Has anybody tried doing this and if so how did you get on?

Cheers
WBC

After more than a few minutes of searching, I do not even know if it is a x86 compatible CPU. If so, it can be flashed.  If no, it can never work.

Hi Lee

Ive popped out the CPU and things look good, its an Intel Celeron 256k RH80532 1.2GHz CPU Processor SL7MG.
Like I say, until I can get my flash card configured I wont know but will post up results on how it goes

Cheers
WBC

Not much to trying this. Burn the image to a 32MB or larger CF and hope the NICs are supported.

You will need to know what the nics are.  Then you will need to burn the flash in a different machine and boot from it.  Then assign the nics correctly.  (You may have to edit the config.xml directly and upload it.)  Because from what I can see on line there is no video and keyboard ports, or serial interface.  If you do have either of those, you can config it on the system.