

It began as a fork of the IPCop project, but has since been rewritten based on Linux From Scratch. The DVD Image (ISO) Installer is used to create a DVD version used to install on virtual machines or systems with a DVD drive. IPFire is a Linux-based stateful firewall distro that’s built on top of Netfilter. It supports the x86 64-bit architecture and can be used on most of the popular hypervisors such as VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM, and others. The entire hard drive will be overwritten, dual booting with another OS is not supported. Cloud Hosted Router (CHR) is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine.

This is the preferred means of running pfSense software. After installing the Conductor and configuring routers through the Conductor, the OTP bootstrap process will install and configure the router. The USB memstick image is meant to be written to a USB flash drive before use and includes an installer that installs pfSense software to the hard drive on your system. OTP sets up DHCP on all interfaces and boots a Web Server GUI.

If you purchased a Netgate product, refer to the product manual for your appliance to see which reinstall image you need. The Netgate ADI image only supports a serial installation from memstick and does not come with VGA option. The amd64 architecture (which works even on Intel 64-bit CPUs) can address more memory and may have other performance advantages, but requires a compatible CPU. If you have a 64-bit capable CPU, use the amd64 version. NETGEAR and non-NETGEAR network devices Desktop and Notebook PCs, Printers, Scanners, and more Windows Operating Systems, MS Office, Outlook, and more. You can determine the files needed for your install by reading the rest of this page for guidance.
