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My dream for ARM sopport of opnsense is basically over. It's never going to happen....

Thank you for your honest words

This time? Maybe? Or never at all?

In the past "arm support" was on the official opnsense road map but as today it's just gone:

Context:
17.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=2441
18.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7741
19.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10937
20.1:  :-X
21.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21551
21.7: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=25107
22.1: to be continued
23.1: to be continued
24.1: to be continued
25.1: to be continued

This time? Maybe? ;)

Context:

17.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=2441
18.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7741
19.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=10937
20.1:  :-X
21.1: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21551
22.1: to be continued

Soon I can start to ask for RISC V support  ;D

"arm support has been postponed to the 30.7 release"

  :-X

http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R1S-H5

Was there ever a opnsense device for less than $25 which does the job? This could be the first one!  ;D

I prefer at least 1GB of RAM to make it worth the time. Currently I'm working on NanoPi R1 device patch, let's hope FreeBSD accept it.

Then you will like this one more



Same same but different. Not only 1GB of ram but also two times true(r)(c)(tm) gigabit Ethernet but and a rk3328 soc

http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R1S-H5

Was there ever a opnsense device for less than $25 which does the job? This could be the first one!  ;D

check out nanopi-r1, RPI0,1,2,3 is not a really for router/firewall.

Thank's for the tip. I have already a good collection of devices and was hoping to get one of mine supported. I have a orange pi one and a orange pi pc which share the same soc as the nano pi r1 (allwinner h3). With a added usb network card they are ready to rumble... when opnsense is ready - it shouldn't be that hard as their is already a image for the h3 soc :P

[$10 orange pi one]

I'm waiting already a couple of years... one more... one less isn't that hard :P

But even with a usb network card the raspberry will still be the shitiest thing for networking (all 4 usb and the internal mac shared in one(!) physical usb hub). For i/o - specially for network this is probably the worst case design flaw. Even a $10 orange pi one with a allwinner h3 is kicking the raspberries away in terms of network throughput simply because the ethernet and usb port's are not shared. Sadly it looks like there is no future for the h3 boards with opnsense  :(

Can someone tell if the raspberry pi 2 image also works on the raspberry pi 3? And is wifi working?

And really great that it finally happens! Opnsense on arm just makes sense!  ;D

Long story short, the image for RPI-2 is here https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:11:armv6/19.1/OPNsense-19.1-test-OpenSSL-arm-armv6-RPI2.img.bz2 and there might be an update before 19.7 but we have no plans to make 32-bit arm officially supported with rolling binary updates.

There's tools.git for everyone who wants to build a certain ARM device:

https://github.com/opnsense/tools#cross-building-for-other-architecures


Cheers,
Franco

Any news/ideas about a raspberry pi 3 image or for a orange pi?

for wishlist, i suggest arm boards with at least 1gb ram, and multicore cpu. lower than that we have to ignore it because it will not work. even with RPI2 specs, it's still considered too slow for advanced use.

Please add the two following as they fit to your suggestions (multicore cpu & 1gb of ram) and listed here: https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedbsd-ports/blob/master/sysutils/Makefile


- orangepi-pc (h3 quad core, 1gb ram, http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_PC)
- orangepi-pc2 (h5 quad core, arm64, 1gb ram, http://linux-sunxi.org/Orange_Pi_PC_2)

current OPNsense uses freebsd 11.2. for now i stop experimenting with arm64 because freebsd simply don't have it working yet. but once OPNsense start using freebsd 12.0, i will help again if needed.

Could you consider creating a image for the orangepi-pc (as it's supported by freebsd 11.2 and isn't a arm64). I like to test the image and give report! :D (I would really like to do it myself but have insufficient infrastructure: metered slow internet and weak cpu)

@nekoprog

some more for the wish list (all supported by BSD and listed here: https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedbsd-ports/blob/master/sysutils/Makefile):

• orangepi-one
• orangepi-pc
• orangepi-pc2
• orangepi-r1
• orangepi-zero

Thank's for your work and effort! opnsense will come more widely and more easily available with these low cost boards. They are great for travel (road warrior  8)) and even suitable for some small networks which are locked down with vendor only routers

Really, there is something happening! Great!  ;D

@chemlud: raspberry pi 3 image is up ;)

OPNsense on NanoPI R1 works.

Wait! What? :o

Got some more information and a download link maybe?  ;D

[NanoPi R1 is an Allwinner H3 Gateway with Dual Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth]

to bad ...this one here would make another wonderful road warrior in a neat little metal case - if opensense would just support it...  :'(

NanoPi R1 is an Allwinner H3 Gateway with Dual Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth






Source: https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/20/nanopi-r1-allwinner-h3-gateway-dual-ethernet-wifi-bluetooth/