On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:24:26 +0000
Mike Tubby <mike@???> wrote:

> Just in case anyone is interested, I have had good success at installing
> Devuan 4.0 on to second hand Sophos firewall hardware (XG115 and XG125,
> Rev 3) to make light-weight firewalls and network appliances.

Hi,
I have it running on a Sophos UTM 425 appliance (inclusive working LCD display),
on a Lanner FW8759 (inclusive working LCD display) and on self built router
with a Jetway JNF592-Q170 motherboard. I'm very happy about all of them.

Ciao,
Tito


> You have to use a terminal program on the console port at 38400 to get
> access to the AMI bios, you can turn off the console port redirection
> and revert to the HDMI output (Rev 3 hardware) and then boot from a USB
> stick with 'netinst' and flatten the Sophos firmware on the 64Gb eMMC
> and install Devuan.
>
> The result is a fast quad core Intel Atom C3508 with four Intel I211
> (XG115) or eight Intel 211/X553 gigabit Ethernet ports and an I210 SFP
> port (XG125).
>
> Processor Information
>         Socket Designation: CPU0
>         Type: Central Processor
>         Family: Pentium 4
>         Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
>         ID: F1 06 05 00 FF FB EB BF
>         Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 95, Stepping 1
>         Flags:
>                 FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
>                 VME (Virtual mode extension)
>                 DE (Debugging extension)
>                 PSE (Page size extension)
>                 TSC (Time stamp counter)
>                 MSR (Model specific registers)
>                 PAE (Physical address extension)
>                 MCE (Machine check exception)
>                 CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
>                 APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
>                 SEP (Fast system call)
>                 MTRR (Memory type range registers)
>                 PGE (Page global enable)
>                 MCA (Machine check architecture)
>                 CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
>                 PAT (Page attribute table)
>                 PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
>                 CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
>                 DS (Debug store)
>                 ACPI (ACPI supported)
>                 MMX (MMX technology supported)
>                 FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
>                 SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
>                 SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
>                 SS (Self-snoop)
>                 HTT (Multi-threading)
>                 TM (Thermal monitor supported)
>                 PBE (Pending break enabled)
>         Version: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3508 @ 1.60GHz
>         Voltage: 1.6 V
>         External Clock: 100 MHz
>         Max Speed: 3800 MHz
>         Current Speed: 1600 MHz
>         Status: Populated, Enabled
>         Upgrade: Socket LGA775
>         L1 Cache Handle: 0x002F
>         L2 Cache Handle: 0x0030
>         L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided
>         Serial Number: Not Specified
>         Asset Tag: UNKNOWN
>         Part Number: Not Specified
>         Core Count: 4
>         Core Enabled: 4
>         Thread Count: 4
>         Characteristics:
>                 64-bit capable
>                 Multi-Core
>                 Hardware Thread
>                 Execute Protection
>                 Enhanced Virtualization
>                 Power/Performance Control
>
> root@xg125:/home/mike/mycrypt# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> System Agent (rev 11)
> 00:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series Error
> Registers (rev 11)
> 00:05.0 Generic system peripheral [0807]: Intel Corporation Atom
> Processor C3000 Series Root Complex Event Collector (rev 11)
> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> Integrated QAT Root Port (rev 11)
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #0 (rev 11)
> 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #1 (rev 11)
> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #2 (rev 11)
> 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #3 (rev 11)
> 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #4 (rev 11)
> 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #5 (rev 11)
> 00:10.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #6 (rev 11)
> 00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series PCI
> Express Root Port #7 (rev 11)
> 00:12.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> SMBus Contoller - Host (rev 11)
> 00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> SATA Controller 0 (rev 11)
> 00:15.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 11)
> 00:16.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> Integrated LAN Root Port #0 (rev 11)
> 00:17.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> Integrated LAN Root Port #1 (rev 11)
> 00:18.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000
> Series ME HECI 1 (rev 11)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series LPC or
> eSPI (rev 11)
> 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> Power Management Controller (rev 11)
> 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series SMBus
> controller (rev 11)
> 00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor
> C3000 Series SPI Controller (rev 11)
> 01:00.0 Co-processor: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series
> QuickAssist Technology (rev 11)
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network
> Connection (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network
> Connection (rev 03)
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network
> Connection (rev 03)
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network
> Connection (rev 03)
> 06:00.0 PCI bridge: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST1150 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
> (rev 03)
> 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED
> Graphics Family (rev 30)
> 0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Fiber
> Network Connection (rev 03)
> 0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X553
> 1GbE (rev 11)
> 0b:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X553
> 1GbE (rev 11)
> 0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X553
> 1GbE (rev 11)
> 0c:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X553
> 1GbE (rev 11)
> root@xg125:/home/mike/mycrypt#
>
> root@xg125:/home/mike/mycrypt# uname -a
> Linux xg125 5.10.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> root@xg125:/home/mike/mycrypt# lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Devuan
> Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
> Release:        4
> Codename:       chimaera
> root@xg125:/home/mike/mycrypt# uptime
>  13:20:15 up 12 days, 20:22,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
> root@xg125:/home/mike/mycrypt#
>
>
>
> IPv4, IPv6, VLANs, OpenVPN, Wireguard, NTP with GPSD and a hardware
> reference clock,  DHCP, Bind, Asterisk and more all working and it draws
> a fraction of the power of the Dell R210 that I used to use.
>
>
> Mike
>
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