Welcome to The Frankenbox Router website.
Hi! So Little about the project this all started out on my sunday homelab session sitting around wondering what I was going to work on for the day.
Eye just glancing around my office “the Lab” I look at my sorry looking lenovo SFF PC that running pfsense in the networking rack. hmmm I probably should do something about you. I had been thinking about this for some time over the last 12 months, As sell Netgate appliances to all of my clients.
So I am not one for just picking things off the shelf for my self, so had done a research on all these cool things that I could get. then I was googling around and found a post about opnsense being install on a Cisco ASA hmm I like this idea, I have one of those in my collection (Note I have a lot of firewalls I have tested over the years)….
So it began, post talks about this cable from PCcable.com that cool and all but a aint paying stupid shipping rates for a cable for the US… Oh yeah I live in Australia. The LAN down Under as most people who know me quoting to the point I say Hi now and reply is “Lexi from the LAN Down Under” hehehe I trained them well….
So pulled out Cisco AS 5515-x out of my collection and got the spec of what I needed to make the cable. 20mins go by Bingo cable made! Its really handy have a stock electronics lab as well.
Okay check back later for the next post
Full guide/tutorial to come !!!
Have had mad reception on twitter about my little sunday homelab project hence this website.
I have spoke to some contacts and I has more ASA on there way to hack upon hope I can get one of each and all the cpu’s and network cards etc to try out in persuit of the Ultimate Frankenbox Router.
-Lexi “Linuxminx”