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15.1 Legacy Series / Re: [SOLVED] OPNsense on Compact Flash

« on: June 09, 2015, 04:05:38 am »

I think it was setup for squid to use the HD as cache so as not to continually write to the CF. It is similar to this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pfsense-2-2-2-ITX-Firewall-Router-1-WAN-3-LAN-60GB-CACHE-/321777533380?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aeb6f81c4.

I'm new to pfsense and just assumed there were some benefit to installing it on the CF card.

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15.1 Legacy Series / Re: [SOLVED] OPNsense on Compact Flash

« on: June 08, 2015, 05:47:03 pm »

Great. What about systems that have CF and hard disk? I have a pfsense box that uses the HD for cache. Is the preferred method to use the HD for cache? If so, then would this be easily setup?

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15.1 Legacy Series / [SOLVED] OPNsense on Compact Flash

« on: June 07, 2015, 04:37:38 am »

pfSense has the NanoBSD package tailored for embedded systems using flash memory such as Compact Flash. According to the pfSense website "Flash memory can only handle a limited number of writes, so the embedded version runs read only from flash, with read/write file systems as RAM disks."

With that in mind...can OPNSense be used safely on Compact Flash systems? If so, then what is the proper way to set it up?