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Hardware and Performance / OPNsense on ARM
« on: March 24, 2021, 04:57:04 pm »
I have been searching for how to install OPNsense on ARM boxes. I see there are some topics around specific hardware like NanoPi R4S. I'm looking for a guide install OPNsense on any ARM device. Is the process so that I first install FreeBSD on my ARM device and then bootstrap OPNsense on? Does anyone have this guide to share?
Also I have a suggestion for the OPNsense project to have one official release image per version for one ARM device. What I gather from messages that general ARM release is difficult because different u-boot systems on each board. But having official ARM image and support even with just one reference board, would still benefit the whole ARM community by bringing official package/plugin support for all. This way one could get the "official" ARM hardware or figure out the booting for their own hardware.
There are quite many interesting hardware choices for ARM firewall boxes. Just a few
1.Macchiatobin(10Gig ports), Espressobin(cheap), Clearfog GT 8K(many 1Gig ports)
2.Raspberry PI 4 compute module(lot of compute module boards coming with multiple NICs)
3.NanoPi R4S (small, cheap, 6 core CPU)
Also I have a suggestion for the OPNsense project to have one official release image per version for one ARM device. What I gather from messages that general ARM release is difficult because different u-boot systems on each board. But having official ARM image and support even with just one reference board, would still benefit the whole ARM community by bringing official package/plugin support for all. This way one could get the "official" ARM hardware or figure out the booting for their own hardware.
There are quite many interesting hardware choices for ARM firewall boxes. Just a few
1.Macchiatobin(10Gig ports), Espressobin(cheap), Clearfog GT 8K(many 1Gig ports)
2.Raspberry PI 4 compute module(lot of compute module boards coming with multiple NICs)
3.NanoPi R4S (small, cheap, 6 core CPU)