Ubiquiti edgerouter lite support?
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It seems no one make pfsense to run on Ubiquiti edgerouter?
http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#edge-router-lite
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that's a MIPS CPU, we don't support MIPS currently.
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It would require to have at least FreeBSD booting on the edgerouter. It seems that such efforts exist, though UBNT is using some FPGA to handle packet processing in hardware - which is what makes them able to squeeze 1-mio packets/sec through this little box - and even on their vyatta-based linux this requires their proprietary kernel module (yet)
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Someone was able to get FreeBSD running on Ubiquiti's Edgerouter Lite:
http://bsdfeed.com/discussion/180344/ubiquiti-edgerouter-lite-works-multi-user-with-current-
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Someone was able to get FreeBSD running on Ubiquiti's Edgerouter Lite:
http://bsdfeed.com/discussion/180344/ubiquiti-edgerouter-lite-works-multi-user-with-current-
Nice! though it sounds like it may still be a ways away from actually being in a state that could run pfSense. His install process seems a bit complex but IIRC when we had the first alpha workings of a RouterStationPRO running pfSense the install process was similar (funding dried up for that so the idea was dropped, it just didn't have enough power among other issues)
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Would be very nice to see we can get pfsense running on this routers especially on the upcoming once Edge Router / Edge Router Pro.
I love anyway the products from Ubiquiti quality and price is very nice.Maybe if a few of us would like to spend some money for this project we get it down early :p
Kind regards
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jimp, how much funding do you estimate this may take?
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I don't know, not my area. Probably in the low-to-mid 5-figure range, if not more. It's a serious amount of work, if it can be done at all.
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I would like to see pfSense on this device
http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#edge-router-poe
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It uses a Dual-core MIPS64 processor running Debian Linux.
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I'll add EdgeRouter Lite support after we ship pfSense 2.2.
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Hey guys, it's easy to get FreeBSD on there and it runs okay, see http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL
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EdgeRouter Lite looks really good for small office use. Having 512MB memory, instead of the Alix 256MB would make life easy. And 3 * 1GB NICs as a bonus, and this base model has:
Power 12VDC, 1A Power Adapter (Included)
Power Input 9 to 24VDC Supported Voltage RangeThey admit to allowing a wide range of DC voltage, so it could be used directly on DC solar/battery.
But I certainly don't havethe low-to-mid 5-figure range, if not more
of $US - I can do it in Nepali Rupees ;)
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See above, where I said I'd do it after pfSense 2.2 ships?
There are reasons.
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It's not going to take someone to "fund" the project (certainly not five figures) to get it done, it's just going to take some time.
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The FreeBSD support for the Edge Router Lite is based on FreeBSD 10. I don't want to have to do the backport to 8.3 (for pfSense 2.1.)
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while there was some work in the pfSense build system for MIPS, it's incomplete. The build system in 2.2 should be much more flexible for cross-compiling.
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when the work is done, these will be available pre-loaded on the pfSense store (http://store.pfsense.org). Not everyone will be successful loading their own, and buying one pre-loaded is a great way to support the project.
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my one concern with this is that the factory firmware from UBNT has a proprietary bit of code that acts as a very fast IPv4 packet forwarding engine. This is how UBNT gets the "1mpps" numbers. I'm not going to support that, so pfSense will be "slower" than the stock firmware at forwarding IPv4 packets. Since the Cavium architecture dedicates a core to running that, pfSense will still make use of both cores, so it may be (with the multi-threaded support for pf in FreeBSD 10/pfSense 2.2) that packet filtering is faster under pfSense than the stock firmware.
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I'm also unlikely to do a lot of work on making the crypto engine go fast. I'm currently concentrating on making AES-NI go fast, and that's a much larger part of the community / installed base. The FreeBSD cryptdev support for Octeon exists, and will have to be "good enough" for a while.
I've already supplied an ER Lite to all the pfSense developers. There is a box with several more sitting by my desk. ;)
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Hey guys, it's easy to get FreeBSD on there and it runs okay, see http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL
Note that the work is based on FreeBSD 10.
Note that pfSense 2.2 is based on FreeBSD 10.Would you like fries with that?
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Someone was able to get FreeBSD running on Ubiquiti's Edgerouter Lite:
http://bsdfeed.com/discussion/180344/ubiquiti-edgerouter-lite-works-multi-user-with-current-
Nice! though it sounds like it may still be a ways away from actually being in a state that could run pfSense. His install process seems a bit complex […]
FYI, Juli Mallett (http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/) is female.
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I'm looking forward to the port, I'm fooling with mine now that I got the latest firmware into it and there are many missing features and aggravations compared to pfSense.
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You teasing the forum again Gonzopancho? ;)
Support for alternative architectures, of any sort, is awesome. It will be very interesting to see how this performs without the FPGA/proprietary module. The link above gives just one figure for anything: 112Mbps over a single NIC. No doubt that could be improved with some polishing. Looking forward to more results… :)Steve
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Gonzopacho, I did not mean to offend you, very sorry if I did. I only posted the link for the guy who said it was hard to install and anyone else interested, not to impugn your hard work in any way.
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Thanks gonzo, I didn't mean to imply that there was any rush or pressure, and I do understand those FreeBSD 10 pfSense 2.2 issues - there would be completely no point in even attempting to backport such a thing to FreeBSD 8.3 pfSense 2.1! I had just looked at the hardware specs and particularly noticed the wide range DC input of the bottom-end box.
