SonicWall hardware: good for anything?

[Alan Johnson]

I've got 4 3060's and 2 2040's.  Decent hardware for firewalling (no moving
parts except fans, and, well, electrons), but the software sucks, IMHO.  I'm
wondering if I can get pfSense onto them and put them back on production.

There is a not-DB15 connector on the MB labled "VGA".  It looks like an
8-pin-long floppy/IDE connector: 2 pins wide with a little notch out of one
of the long walls.  Any idea where I can get a cable for that?  If not, I
could probably figure out an install via serial terminal, but I've never
been there before.

The other thing that worries me is chip labled "SonicOS BIOS".  I wonder if
that will keep me from running anything non-Sonic.

Other than that, it looks like a pretty standard Intel-platform motherboard
with some extra on-board NICs.  So, before I spent a lot of time hacking at
this thing, I thought I would source the crowd.  Anyone had any luck
converting such boxes?

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Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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