On 29/11/2020 02:28, Derek.Moody wrote:
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> If your external drive is SSD it will be faster than your current server and
> can be arranged to run silently using much less power.
>
> Caveat: I do not know the freebsd distro - I would expect it to be OK.
> I use Raspup, the Puppy Linux version for Pi.

I've had fbsd running on the pi3, an unsupported 12.x. Actually, I'd
seriously consider switching to a linux, except that I'm doing things
using pf that don't seem readily possible with iptables (although maybe
I've missed something).

>
> Your biggest problem will be deciding where to get your clock updates from;
> do you open the Pi to the internet or run a timeserver on another machine.

The present pi3 has a rtc attached to help it on its way; the existing
server has a (low-grade) gps dongle plus uses external ntp servers as
backup. It provides time to our lan. Good to <20msec, which is good enough.

>
> Hth, Cheerio,
>


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Mike Scott
Harlow, England

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