What's inside this Sophos Firewall and will it load pfsense

I've had this firewall kicking around the shop and finally had time to crack it open and play with it. join me on my quest to explore its insides and see if it will load PfSense

[appen]

Great video, but I think you should leave the background music out next time.

[TheJonathanc]

I run pfsense on a (former) sophos firewall, it is awesome! High performance in a great rack mount form factor.

[gueroloco]

I love the intro "Hey Y'all" that is awesome!!! Great video!!

[cjchico]

Nice to see a fellow gun enthusiast doing homelab stuff!

[fps_purple]

Glad to see you have a yt channel, great video! -fiberflipper

[andriitarykin]

Thank you! I always enjoy your videos!

[droidchevere]

I just installed pfsense on my sophos xg 106 with pfblocker ng running . After a failed dd of sophos home to the appliance I noticed that only port 1 and 4 worked once the sophos os loaded . Link lights flashes on 2 and 3 until the os loaded . After switching to pf sense all of the ports work and the proper status leds on the front flash with the correct Ethernet port link lights. I noticed that all my home kit devices are much more responsive than they were on sophos fire wall only official latest build on the same appliance .

[idahofur]

Pfsense, untangle, mikrotik, monowall, and one that ran on just a floppy drive. Can't remember the name. 10+ years ago. All fun times and messing up the config on Pfsense / resetting it was a joy.

[davidwilliss]

Did the SFP ports turn out to be SFP+ or just plain SFP? Also, were you able to load a plugin to use the LCD display on the front?

[mikescott]

I had pfsense running nicely on a XG230 Rev2 unit, I sold it for more than I paid. I've since got another to maybe do some stuff with again. Currently running Sophos XG home on a Dell R220.

[Nerdonelmstreet]

Need daily video's! Every live on TikTok MUST be uploaded here :) also, a Day in the Life vlog would be pretty cool.

[ericturner]

Any problems with it over the past year since you posted this? I just bought a Sophos SG 230 Rev.1 off of eBay for $150. It comes with an 8-port FlexiPort module, which I'm going to sell and use the money to buy a Checkpoint CPAC-4-10F module to add 10Gb fiber to the Sophos. We'll see if it all works once I have the hardware in hand.
Update: My SG230 arrived, and was absolutely spotless. Either the seller never used it, or they cleaned it extremely well. Mine only has 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, but I'm keeping an eye out for a matching stick to put in the second slot. I was able to install OPNSense on it, and got the serial console working. Have to run some network cables before I can use it. I might try to get the LCD working in OPNSense.

[travisaugustine]

So I'm curious, it looks like in the bottom of your rack is a Unifi Dream Machine Pro (or maybe SE)...what are you using that for? I'm currently using a UDM SE for my firewall/router and am giving some serious consideration to going back to OPNSense after having time to discover the weaknesses of the Unifi lineup. I just haven't decided if I want to keep the UDM for inter-VLAN routing/default gateway for the VLANs and OPNSense as the network firewall.

[mihumono]

Few months ago I got riverbed cx570. I run opnsense on it. My version even has IPMI which is usefull to see the state of boot process.

[usmanafzalcissp]

LCD: what about it? How can we make adjustments?

[fujitsubo]

looks like an XG 310, in that case it should have 2 10gig sfp+ ports built in. the card slot in the front is called "flexi port" used in a bunch of different networking gear

[uqu]

I really enjoyed the content keep it up

[Felix-vehs]

Cant believe DDR4 is already 8 years old at this point

[mdk]

Thanks for the video.
I have a strange question: could it run as an Esxi host server? 🙂

[GTIC]

The OEM is Portwell, Taiwan ... its standard X86 with intel i210/i211 interfaces