Install on NETASQ U30 S ?

bolino

@stephenw10 ok bad news : it works on U70 (mine ) : strange U30 and U70 no share the same hardware ( entry level both )

stephenw10

Yup, same on the u250s I have. The Atheros AR8328 in the u30s doesn't have a console at all though. It's something more often found in SOHO routers. If I was doing it I was try with OpenWRT as I suggested. They do have support for that in their switch framework.

Steve

tedd

@stephenw10
The main issue is to configure the switch Atheros AR8328 somehow .
Will the idea of openwrt is to configure the switch and then move back to pfsense work?
Steve suggested to configure via MDC/MDIO bus ! But how? Can someone help?
Thank you in advance.

stephenw10

That probably won't work. When you reboot between OpenWRT and pfSense the switch should be reset by the BIOS. For that not to happen would be a security issue in the original application.

It looks like the em NICs attach OK with the switch on the PHY side which igb might not.

Has anyone just tried running OpenWRT on it directly yet? That needs to happen first to confirm what we are guessing is actually how it's connected.

Steve

tedd

@stephenw10
Good to hear that someone is still following this project.
From my experience with other Stormshield and Netasq appliances the UART once written into it, the configuration remains.
For instance, I have done configurations on one SN250 using opensense , then changed the to Pfsense using another HD . I did not have to access the serial and change anything.
So what I mean , if there is a way to write the configuration to the switch the rest will be fluid.
I have failed so far to make this work on SN200 and SN150 (Not even able to make it boot) . Anything above 250 In Netasq and Stormshield worked fine.
Even on Arkoon I made it work.

stephenw10

Well try it and see if you have the hardware. The most difficult part of that is probably going to be setting up dual booting with OpenWRT and pfSense. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone do that.