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Qotom/ProtectLI FW2B appliance? (Fitlet2 J3455 purchased)

RobertBurri

Curious if anyone has used one of these for Sophos?

https://protectli.com/product/fw2b/

  • Intel Celeron® J3060 Dual Core at 1.6 GHz (Turbo 2.48 GHz)
  • 2 Intel® Gigabit i211-AT Ethernet NIC ports
  • AES-NI

I'd think it could handle gigabit speeds, with IPS/Snort, disabled that is.

Thoughts?

 

...am looking for a replacement for my Realtek NIC failing Zotac...but my requirements remain the same.  Fanless, small form factor.  I don't want a server or anything like that, so keep landing on these Qotom style appliances.  I did however find a fitlet2 that has a J3455 cpu that is also probably an option.



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  • 0 in reply to RobertBurri

    Hi RobertBurri,

    I just purchased a J3455 with a 64 m.2 SSD. I can’t boot the UTM 9.605 iso. Tried Rufus with multiple USB drives (bios sees the USB key media as a boot option), and even a USB DVD drive (again bios sees the USB mass storage for the drive). I’m lost why I can boot the installer.

    I can boot usb to pfSense an Arch Linux so I know the system will boot an installer off of USB.

    Any custom BIOS settings I might be missing?

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to Eric Chiaramonte

    Hey - 

    I never tried UTM actually, went straight to OPNSense actually to test first, and just stuck with it.  Once I entered the hints as outlined, and made them permanent in the tunables section, I haven't had a problem.

    Here is the post on the OPNSense forum about how to get it running.

    https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7247.msg44892#msg44892

    It might be old, but probably still generally valid.  I've had mine running since I got it going, and haven't felt the need to try anything different.  There are a few BIOS steps, but if I did them I've just forgotten.

    Good luck.

  • 0 in reply to Eric Chiaramonte

    Hi Eric and welcome to the UTM Community!

    You might check the last few pages of *Unofficial* Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
  • 0 in reply to Eric Chiaramonte

    I too have the same concern and haven’t found much on the compatibility although some suggested turning on legacy mode?  Any update would be appreciated since I have an order in the pipeline!  

    If it did work, any details on steps would be appreciated.

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to Eric Chiaramonte

    Eric, AlphaTango,

    I've also just ordered the Fitlet J3455 to use the Sophos XG Home. Did you end up succeeding in getting the device to work? If so, are there any idiosyncrasies / tips / issues I should be aware of?

     

    Thanks,

  • +1 in reply to RudyT

    Hi Rudy,

    I did get Sophos UTM installed (XG didn't work but didn't try to hard, I like UTM).

    I'm doing this from memory but, in the BIOS, you need to assure legacy boot, then enable CPU compatibility, finally when the installer runs it may not see the install directory on the USB drive. So at a particular step of the install, you switch to the console and run a mount command to make the install available to the installer, switch back and proceed (someone has a thread out there on this last step, search and you should find it).

    Again all from memory but this should point you in the right direction if you choose UTM.

    Eric

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