On Feb 19, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.voloti...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Well. Does it require so much power, that I cannot run it on intel core2 > quad Q9400, 2.66Ghz processor (4 cores) ? What a curious question. It does not require "so much power" but it does require a minimum hardware spec, which that CPU will lack (no AESNI). I can understand why people would be unhappy that their hardware becomes unsupported by a new release, but I also understand it's common in the computing industry and makes a lot of sense for Netgate to do this (reduced support costs; increased developer focus; etc.). It's nice, also, they've laid out a roadmap for doing this and telegraphed clearly how they plan to support older hardware and for how long. It's not like they just decided yesterday over a couple of pints at the pub to throw everyone without AESNI-capable CPUs under the bus right now. I still have a CF NanoBSD-based pfSense installation running on Netgate hardware, and I appreciate they are still supporting 2.3, giving people like me time to migrate off to something else. Cheers, Paul. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
