Hey Bill,

this hardware is actually supported at the moment:

http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/hardware/arm/start

Unfortunately it does not really come with five Ethernet ports. This is
just one real one with a switch in front of it.

Best,
-Michael

On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 14:02 -0400, William Pechter wrote:
> Has anyone looked into IPFire on the Banana Pi BPI-R1?
> 
> I'm thinking about replacing my big old dual PIII commercial
> power sucking box with IPFire on one of these.
> 
> http://www.banana-pi.com/eacp_view.asp?id=64
> 
> 
> Seems like a perfect IPFire appliance. 8-)
> 
> Five gigabit ethernets plus Wifi 802/b/g/n
> 
> Bill