Alternative use for Firewalla Red

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James Loker-Steele

• February 27, 2023 12:20

Hi, 

I have a firewalla red but no longer use it. I would like to turn it into a webserver, will any arm based linux distro work on it or is there a specific one to use?

My internet speed is too much for the little box.

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  Firewalla

  • February 27, 2023 17:04

  What you can do is change the mode to limited mode, and disable monitoring, then you can just ssh into the box and do anything you want. 

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  thobu

  • August 03, 2023 09:31

  I was wondering the same, can I flash an SD with Raspberry OS and use it as a small PC?

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  Firewalla

  • August 03, 2023 16:09

  No. 

  ARM processor and boards needs specific BSP to run. Raspberry OS likely only support rpi platforms.

  What you can do is just run firewalla red in limited mode and ssh inside to run services you need. It is fully open. https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004397274-How-to-access-Firewalla-using-SSH-

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  thobu

  • August 03, 2023 16:28
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   I would want to run NextDNS Cli on it but did not work for me

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  Shimmy

  • August 03, 2023 16:56

  On my FWB, I run Armbian on it.

  I believe the underlying hardware for FWB is a NanoPi Neo2.  I'm not sure what FWR uses, but I would imagine it'd be in the same family.

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  Shimmy

  • August 03, 2023 17:03

  Found the link that talks a little bit about FWR's underlying hardware...

  https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12253-firewalla-and-armbian/

  Quoting from the link...

  "The small (red) one is a 32Bit NanoPi Neo (H3/512MB) and the blue one is the 64Bit NanoPi Neo2 LTS (H5/1GB Ram)."

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  thobu

  • August 04, 2023 12:36

  Thanks, https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/ works nicely on the FW Red

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