On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Chris Buechler <c...@pfsense.org> wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 13, 2014, Andrew Hull <l...@coffeebreath.org> wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> Having purchased several pfSense devices assembled by Netgate (m1n1wall >> and FW-7541), I've noticed that the pfSense pre-install image was customized >> with Netgate branding and the firmware auto-update mechanism was set to a >> Netgate URL. >> >> Has this been discussed on the list before? >> >> My knee jerk reaction is that this is A Bad Thing(tm), and I reloaded the >> devices with images from ESF. > > No, no, no. Custom hardware-specific images are a good thing - when done by > us, as in the case of Netgate. More when I'm not on my phone. >
In the mean time, everyone else has covered the reasoning in more detail. You want to have a proper default config in place, so if you reset to factory defaults, your interface assignments go back to where they were originally, serial console setup appropriately where relevant, etc. There also may be hardware-specific tweaks or tuning in such images. It's done to make your experience with the hardware as hassle-free as possible. _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
