Subj : Re: Using a Pi as a firewall
To   : deon
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Thu Aug 19 2021 15:16:07

On 19 Aug 2021, deon said the following...
 
 de> Howdy,

G'day =)

 de> I've wondered if the Pi would be OK for a firewall - I have doubts about
 de> its network performance though. (Only because I havent researched it).

I wondered the same, the NIC on a 4B is 1Gbps but I don't know if realistically 























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































a Pi can achieve a full 1Gbps - when I try I will know and share the info if no 























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































one else does before hand.

 de> Run it ESXi - you can give it as many network interfaces that you want,
 de> but I guess that would impact performance even more... (And yes, I
 de> guesss you still need to use a VLAN..)

Ah not a bad shout, I wonder if the OpenBSD image is an ISO or a IMG, I had 
issues figuring out how to use the IMG file as it's not a bootable image, it's 
a clone of a disk... never really spent much time on it though.

 de>  Me> Aside from running BBSes, what else do y'all run your Pi's to do? I g
 de>  Me> Pi 4B's here, and I had installed ESXI on them, but since
 de>  Me> then I haven't really done anything with them... they look cool in th
 de>  Me> cluster case but I really need to make use of them properly.
 de> 
 de> Yeah, I've got 2 Pi 4's but they are not in use at the moment.
 de> 
 de> I did have them running all BBS stuff, but then I setup a door game
 de> server and used Windows, since that was more successful then dosemu. So
 de> the BBS stuff is running on a APU1D (also under ESXi).

Ah that makes sense, dosemu was/is a pita to set up for door games in my 
experience, doable, but a pita.

 de> My Pi 3+ is a retro gameboy that my son has (in a Waveshare Game Hat) - I
 de> should get that off him and play it...

Ah sounds nice, is that similar to what Paulie420 has? I think his is called 
something like the Pi-boy or something. Looks amazing anyway.

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