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I remember the first time I installed m0n0wall on a p3 500Mhz in high school and being stunned how beautiful everything worked. Nowadays I mostly use PFSense or Vyatta.
Minimum hardware requirements: "This version (any platform) requires at least 128 MB RAM and a disk/CF size of 32 MB or more."

It's a shame this isn't portable to ARM systems, where $50-100 buys you much more than that. Buying a small, low power x86 system in quantity 1 raises the overall price significantly.

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Damn.. this is one of the best firewalls available that I haven't used because it won't work on the embedded hardware I have. I'd (figuratively) kill for this on a Pi.
It's primarily a GUI on existing OS tools - you could create a version that uses Linux commands instead of FreeBSD.
Went to PFSense and never looked back.
Is there an API for making changes? That's the single biggest annoyance with my current solution in that space, pfSense. Automating changes is terrible.

I didn't see it in the feature list, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I was a long-time m0n0wall user on the Soekris platform but switched to pfSense running in a VM under ESXi last year because the little Soekris just couldn't keep up with modern home internet speeds. In the end, it was a very positive change and I wrote a blog entry on the somewhat peculiar hardware setup that I chose to replace the little Soekris:

http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-al...