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Can You Repurpose a Red 15 or other RED Appliance for General Use?

I know that you can repurpose the various SG and XG firewall appliances for all kinds of uses. You can run Sophos UTM (of course), boot Linux or UNIX and make it into a server, or even install a different firewall on it (e.g., Pfsense). ... but I digress. I am asking about RED appliances.

I have a RED 15 with no future and I wonder whether it can be booted into Linux or repurposed in some other way (other than as a RED appliance)?

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BAlfson over 1 year ago +1

I don't recall ever seeing this discussed here. Cheers - Bob

0 BAlfson over 1 year ago

I don't recall ever seeing this discussed here.

Cheers - Bob

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0 Alan Brand over 1 year ago

See here for OpenWRT code and instructions.
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0 PhilippRusch over 1 year ago in reply to Alan Brand

Hello Alan,

that's interesting info!

I see at OpenWRT, that you can even repurpose Sophos AP55/55C and AP100/100C!

Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

Philipp Rusch

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0 utmadm over 1 year ago in reply to Alan Brand

One thing that I noticed is the processor on the RED 15w is PowerPC, according to the OpenWRT link. That may limit its general utility somewhat.
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0 Alan Brand over 1 year ago in reply to PhilippRusch

As far as I understand it's even the other way round - the RED is built on parts of the OpenWRT sources (in particular the WiFi driver).
See the license statement and the available GPL sourcecode.
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0 Alan Brand over 1 year ago in reply to utmadm

Some other constraints (i.E. no realtime clock) limit it too, but for a small iptables-based firewall, a GUI and maybe DNS/DHCP/RADIUS it should be sufficient. Many people here in Germany use to monitor their solar panels with boxes of this size (often a Fritz!Box or a Pi).
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