Christopher J. Ruwe

tl:dr

Having recently patched my firewall running pfSense from 2.1.5 to 2.2 and having become a tad suspicious after some years experience with IT, I found out my VPN setup stopped working. (To be honest, I do not know exactly when it stopped working. I only learned about it when testing my patching procedures.)

ARMv6 Raspberry Pi mini-computers offer an power-economical soultion to provision networking appliances for small to medium scale networks. This article shows how to circumvent the low computation power of these machines when building software in a cross-compilation setup.

When the native packaging system does not suffice, it is possible to help oneself. That sort of self-reliance is proven, and yes, it works on OpenSolaris spinn-offs and thus on SmartOS.