On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 08:54:14 +0000
Mike Scott  wrote:

> On 29/11/2020 02:28, Derek.Moody wrote:
> .....
> > 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).
>
Iptables is in the process of being replaced by nftables. I have a Pi
with an nftables firewall, but so far I've only ported over my previous
server iptables rules, I haven't explored further.

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Joe

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