OPNsense on ARMADA A38x SOC (ARM Cortex A9 core)

[amol.lad@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm new to OPNsense so please forgive if this post seems very trivial or completely insane.

There is no doubt OPNsense is one of the best open source firewall solution.

I've gone through some documentation and realized that it is supported only on x86 based platforms and the OPNsense "distribution" is, in fact, a complete distribution including kernel, drivers etc.

Is OPNsense easily portable to other platforms? We're building a router based on ARMADA A38x SOC (Dual core ARM Cortex-A9). FreeBSD supports this SOC. Can OPNsense run on the system based on A38x SOC? Some details about this SOC:

https://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a38x:microsom

Also, can OPNsense run on Linux platform? or it must be FreeBSD only?

Thanks
Amol

[bartjsmit]

Hi Amol,

There have been some proof of concept attempts to run OPNsense on a Raspberry Pi, and it is possible to build OPNsense on FreeBSD but you'll likely not get the best outcome nor an easy road to get there.

Linux is out.

Bart...