OPNsense on ARM

[chemlud]

sense + ARM -> waste of time and money, as long as the developers don't actively support it. we have to live with that decision by the the dev's as with other (debatable) decisions...

[sparticle]

What about RockPi-X or Odroid? Has anyone had success with one of these?

RockPi-X suffers from the same limitation as an ARM based Pi: only one Ethernet port. So you have to use USB-Ethernet, which I would rather avoid. Or bring an extra switch and trunk. But then you could just use an EdgeRouter-X or similar

Interesting comment regarding not using USB based ethernet. The testing I did on freebsd on Rpi4 showed the USB3 ethernet adaptor was just as good as the ethernet port which as we all know is not wire speed! But unless you have GB Wan connections more than good enough at about 700mb. If you have GB WAN etc. then you would be using more capable HW anyway.

Admittedly the xBSD ethernet drivers are S**t in general compared to the linux drivers. Running a basic Ubuntu 22.04 server on the rpi4 I could run both the internal GB Nic and the USB3 NIC at wire speed.

No point in escalating to the BSD devs as no one even picks up the reports and acknowledges the drivers have issues so they never make it into the dev pipeline.

[lilsense]

you just gotta know where to report them.

[errorcode67]

Would be sweet if could run OPNSense on one of these (LinkStar-H68K-1432) for $119 ($89 if you don't want/need WiFi).

https://www.seeedstudio.com/LinkStar-H68K-1432-p-5501.html

Processor: Rockchip RK3568 for up to 2.0GHz
CPU: Quad-core 64-bit Cortex-A55
GPU: ARM G52 2EE
NPU: 1 TOPS@INT8

Multi-Media:
4K@60fps H.265/H.264/VP9 video decoder
1080@60fps H.265/H.264 video encoder
Support 8M ISP, HDR

Storage:
onboard 32GB eMMC
1x SD card slot for storage expansion

Operating System:
Pre-installed Android 11 OS
Support Ubuntu, Debian, Armbian, Android, Openwrt, Buildroot

Wireless:
Dual-band 2.4G/5G Wi-Fi 6
M7921E module

NIC:
2x 1G Ethernet NIC RTL8211F
2x 2.5G Ethernet NIC RTL8125B

Video Output: 1x HDMI2.0 interface for 4K output
Audio: 1x 3.5mm four-piece headphones for both input and output

USB:
1x USB 3.0 Type-A
1x USB 3.0 Type-C, capable of storage expansion and 5V power supply
2x USB 2.0 Type-A

Power Supply: operating voltage: 5V~24V DC(12V-1A DC recommended)
recommend: 12V-1A DC
recommend(with additional hardware driver): 12-2A DC
recommend(with Type-C connector): under 5V

Power Consumption: 8W
Operating temperature: -10 ~ 55°C

Dimensions: 80*60*40mm

[lilsense]

if you got one, you could try NetBSD to see if it boots...

[S199p.Wa1k9r]

Several guys are trying to run FreeBSD 14.0 on a similar Rockchip RK3568 NanoPi-R5S board.

This is the first step to getting OPNsense on it.

There are some small successes.
https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7c644cc639#Host