Raspberry PI

junwin · May 6, 2013, 11:05 AM

There is most certainly some good projects in the fbsd community on this exact item.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd
http://ogris.de/howtos/freebsd-raspberry.html
http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=261
https://github.com/gonzoua/freebsd-gpio

My suggestion is get Crochet build an image (https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd) and a RaspberryPI start playing around.

I have been able to install fbsd with ipfw + dummynet and ipf + altq (tested and working). I have gotten python up and running and the gpio stuff (very cool), was about to start making an interface in python + pyramid + other dingbats but realised that pfsense may do what i need.

markuhde · May 7, 2013, 11:49 PM

Even if it ever got to that point, the USB based NIC (and only one of them at that) is going to simply not be the hardware you need for this application, not on that slow of processor.

Now, on the other hand, I DO have a Raspberry Pi in one of my pfSense boxes :) It's running Fedora and is nothing but a RADIUS server.

binary_dreamer · Jul 21, 2013, 9:50 AM

hi. is there any success storyies for raspberry running pfsense?

thermo · Jul 29, 2013, 11:48 AM

@binary_dreamer:

hi. is there any success storyies for raspberry running pfsense?

None, and unlikely for some time.
Your next best bet is openwrt.

LucaREz · Apr 22, 2014, 6:32 PM

@thermo:

@binary_dreamer:

hi. is there any success storyies for raspberry running pfsense?

None, and unlikely for some time.
Your next best bet is openwrt.

did anything change?

patriotemeritus · Jun 4, 2014, 8:24 PM

Totally interested in this project if it ever runs :-)

freakalad · Sep 26, 2014, 11:58 PM

I've encountered a new board - based on the Banana Pi, which is essentially a beefed up RPi: BPi-R1.
I'm considering playing with this & IPFire as solution - still only an idea atm.

jimp · Sep 29, 2014, 6:58 PM

The popularity of the Pi given its specs still baffles me. I know it's fun to hack on, but there are other similar offerings like the BBB that are comparable in price but much more attractive as a platform.

fellipeh · Aug 14, 2015, 2:02 PM

Any news ?

It's possible to run pfSense on Raspibery PI?

jahonix · Aug 14, 2015, 2:08 PM

@fellipeh:

It's possible to run pfSense on Raspibery PI?

No.
Not yet and pretty sure not in the future. But this has been written dozens of times, even in this thread. Dare to read?

jimp · Aug 17, 2015, 1:40 PM

rabim747 · Oct 12, 2015, 1:07 AM

Hi I am not a linux or hi tech network guy.. but I think with using vlan rasberry pi can be connected to t switch like 8 port layer 2 switch like and 1810 Hp 8port switch and a rasberry pfsense should be able to make use the switch as lan and wan ?

David_W · Oct 12, 2015, 4:14 AM

@rabim747:

Hi I am not a linux or hi tech network guy.. but I think with using vlan rasberry pi can be connected to t switch like 8 port layer 2 switch like and 1810 Hp 8port switch and a rasberry pfsense should be able to make use the switch as lan and wan ?

As Jim said earlier in the thread, a Raspberry Pi makes a very poor candidate for a serious network device. It has a single NIC that could potentially be used with VLANs and a suitable switch, but it is a low performance USB connected NIC. I don't know enough about the hardware to know how well it works with 802.1q VLAN tagging.

There are better candidate boards for pfSense if an ARM build was produced. The Beaglebone Black is a similar price to the Raspberry Pi and has a much better NIC, though I haven't characterised the BBB as a possible platform to run an ARM build of pfSense if one is produced.

I think it very likely that there will be an ARM build of pfSense at some point in the future. If one is produced, I think it's best to select a hardware platform on the basis of price, stability and performance, not decide on a hardware platform that you wish to run pfSense on. There are many excellent and inexpensive ARM boards available these days, each with different strength. It is best to select the board most suited to your task.

Guest · Oct 12, 2015, 4:15 PM

@rabim747:

Hi I am not a linux or hi tech network guy.. but I think with using vlan rasberry pi can be connected to t switch like 8 port layer 2 switch like and 1810 Hp 8port switch and a rasberry pfsense should be able to make use the switch as lan and wan ?

But a MIPS fork instead of an ARM fork would be bring us up to use the UBNT EdgeRouter series from 5 Port and
and 55 € to the Pro model and 360 € that would be in my eyes making more sense to go, related to the circumstance that the UBNT models or EdgeRouter series is a similar used wise hardware.

For sure the newest Tilera TileGx 100 core is ARM based and would be something more likely a
firewall device to solder and get likes a RaspBerry PI.

jahonix · Oct 13, 2015, 12:08 AM

@David_W:

…better candidate boards ... The Beaglebone Black ...

If you stop by the netgate shop you'll find BBBs already.
gonzopancho once mentioned that they are there for a reason.

Another nice device I just saw is the MinnowBoard.
Maybe you could use that as a router-on-stick, but be warned that FreeBSD is NOT mentioned in the compatibility list! Looks like fun none the less!

jwt · Nov 9, 2015, 10:25 PM

FreeBSD runs fine.

Also: http://imgur.com/gallery/hnvhp/new :-)

alex_lebbrom · Jun 7, 2016, 1:52 PM

Any news ?

It's possible to run pfSense on Raspibery PI?

jahonix · Jun 7, 2016, 10:16 PM

No.
Wouldn't make too much sense with only one Ethernet port and that one is hanging off from USB already.

2chemlud · Jun 8, 2016, 8:02 AM

Raspi 3 has wifi and LAN, makes two interfaces.

Would be a cool personal firewall for public wifi. Especially with built-in tunnels and routing through these tunnels. In my opinion.

bsilva · Oct 15, 2016, 5:17 PM

I wouldn't use the Pi performance as a reason against a port.

I have no problem sustaining 100mb/s of SFTP traffic through the ethernet on a Pi2. So, that includes encryption as well as TCP processing.

I haven't benchmarked routing through a Pi (I'll add that to my todo list), but I've used a Pi as a web server to multiple networks in a lab using USB ethernet and have never had a performance issue.

Likewise the VLAN capability. A friend of mine uses a Pi as a DHCP server to 16 networks via VLANs on a Pi-1B.

I think the Pi would be a good low-end platform for PFsense. It's not going to be Enterprise capable, but that's fine. Still plenty of other uses at sub-100Mb/s speeds.

Brad