Firewalla Software: Bring Your Own Hardware

Driven by massive AI data center demands, the cost of critical memory components like DDR4 and eMMC has exploded by 10x to 20x. Combined with severe global parts shortages and absolutely no relief in sight, manufacturing hardware is becoming increasingly unpredictable and expensive. 

 

In a recent poll, we were genuinely surprised by how many of you wanted a software-only Firewalla.  We've been thinking about this too --- after all, Firewalla started out on a Raspberry Pi back in 2016. But before we commit, we need your help figuring out if we can realistically support all the wild hardware combinations out there. 

 

This short survey will help us shape what a Firewalla Software release might look like, and convince our team there is a strong (or weak) interest to this project.