This repo contains the necessary configs to create a WIFI router out of PC Engine's APU2 running OpenBSD >=5.9.
The APU2 is a fanless board with 4x 1Ghz CPUs and 4GB of RAM (AMD GX-412TC SOC, amd64 intruction set) - quite capable. Well, actually it's totally overkill for a router but anyway, it's still cheaper then the alternatives. Oh and it use an open source firmware: coreboot.
It's stable. We've been using it for a few years now and had very few hiccups. The biggest limitation is the support for 802.11ac and poor performance of 802.11n.
Well frankly, we were tired of unreliable, inpotent routers with unknown (crappy) security posture. Our objective was to setup this thing once and forget about it - not a techy-powertrip.
- The APU2 is setup as such and cost 245$cad: - board: apu2c4 - 4x 1Ghz, 4 GB RAM, 3 1000baseT, 2 USB3, 1 SATA, 2 mPCI, etc
- Follow Elad's instructions to install OpenBSD on the APU2.
- Set the proper console to boot from installation media: wintin the boot shell
stty com0 115200set tty com0
- Set the proper console to boot from installation media: wintin the boot shell
- The config files are pretty much self explanatory. Really, if you don't know what it does... RTFM or it's simply not for you. OpenBSD's doc is quite simple and complete.
- Execute this for a status web page:
echo '*/5 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/update_webpage' >> /var/cron/tabs/root
$ uname -a
OpenBSD barricade.mantor.org 5.9 GENERIC.MP#1888 amd64
$ sysctl hw.sensors.km0.temp0
hw.sensors.km0.temp0=62.75 degC
$ top -nC 666
load averages: 0.62, 0.52, 0.56 barricade.mantor.org 13:15:01
33 processes: 32 idle, 1 on processor up 12 days, 22:27
CPU0 states: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.1% system, 0.2% interrupt, 99.4% idle
CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.1% system, 0.1% interrupt, 99.8% idle
CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.1% system, 0.1% interrupt, 99.8% idle
CPU3 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.9% idle
Memory: Real: 48M/247M act/tot Free: 3698M Cache: 123M Swap: 0K/890M
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND
14875 _unbound 2 0 27M 32M sleep kqread 1:03 0.00% unbound -c /var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf
31702 _ntp 2 -20 1300K 1656K sleep poll 0:50 0.00% ntpd: ntp engine
30018 _pflogd 4 0 688K 508K sleep bpf 0:25 0.00% pflogd: [running] -s 160 -i pflog0 -f /var/log/pflog
26667 root 2 0 916K 1440K idle select 0:11 0.00% /usr/sbin/sshd
4198 _syslogd 2 0 1060K 1444K sleep kqread 0:10 0.00% /usr/sbin/syslogd
27374 root 2 0 760K 1104K sleep poll 0:09 0.00% /usr/sbin/cron
2301 _dhcp 2 0 768K 680K idle poll 0:03 0.00% dhclient: em0
1 root 10 0 464K 564K idle wait 0:02 0.00% /sbin/init
2454 _dhcp 2 0 708K 1400K idle poll 0:01 0.00% /usr/sbin/dhcpd athn0
15368 root 2 0 3552K 3292K idle poll 0:01 0.00% sshd: northox [priv]
30674 _smtpd 2 0 1676K 2784K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd: pony express
497 root 2 0 1576K 2180K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% /usr/sbin/smtpd
2020 _smtpq 2 0 1676K 2380K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd: queue
30436 _smtpd 2 0 1540K 2364K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd: lookup
2118 _smtpd 2 0 1648K 2324K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd: control
16322 root 2 0 1060K 1268K idle netio 0:00 0.00% syslogd: [priv]
15619 root 2 0 624K 608K idle netio 0:00 0.00% pflogd: [priv]
16011 _smtpd 2 0 1308K 2084K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd: scheduler
24867 root 2 -20 804K 1664K idle poll 0:00 0.00% /usr/sbin/ntpd
1856 root 2 0 648K 548K idle poll 0:00 0.00% dhclient: em0 [priv]
252 root 2 0 864K 1876K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% /usr/sbin/httpd
1211 _smtpd 2 0 1376K 1988K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% smtpd: klondike
31513 www 2 0 884K 1884K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% httpd: server
11225 www 2 0 744K 1616K idle kqread 0:00 0.00% httpd: logger
18802 _ntp 2 0 688K 1424K idle poll 0:00 0.00% ntpd: dns engine
7354 root 3 0 336K 1120K idle ttyin 0:00 0.00% /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 tty00
$ list-dhcpd-leases
192.168.1.16 55:f9:35:43:32:11 "iPad"
192.168.1.17 78:44:87:13:56:6e "android-35375e65e664b13d"
192.168.1.21 74:86:23:1d:a6:61 "laserbeak"
$ ^D
OpenBSD 5.9 (GENERIC.MP) #1888: Fri Feb 26 01:20:19 MST 2016
deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 4261076992 (4063MB)
avail mem = 4127739904 (3936MB)
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xdffb7020 (7 entries)
bios0: vendor coreboot version "88a4f96" date 03/11/2016
bios0: PC Engines apu2
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT APIC HEST SSDT SSDT HPET
acpi0: wakeup devices PWRB(S4) PBR4(S4) PBR5(S4) PBR6(S4) PBR7(S4) PBR8(S4) UOH1(S3) UOH3(S3) UOH5(S3) XHC0(S4)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD GX-412TC SOC, 998.30 MHz
cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,
PCLMUL,MWAIT,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,CMPLEG,
SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,TOPEXT,ITSC,BMI1
cpu0: 32KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 2MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 40 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges
cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz
cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, IBE
<snip cpu1-3...>
Ubench CPU: 288530
Ubench MEM: 37347
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Ubench AVG: 162938
$ openssl speed md5 sha1 sha256 sha512 des des-ede3 aes-128-cbc aes-192-cbc aes-256-cbc rsa2048 dsa2048
LibreSSL 2.3.2
built on: date not available
options:bn(64,64) rc4(8x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) aes(partial) idea(int) blowfish(idx)
compiler: information not available
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
md5 4565.65k 16729.20k 49299.48k 96037.93k 132775.72k
sha1 4481.83k 15422.45k 40502.69k 68271.20k 86173.85k
des cbc 11858.55k 12263.08k 12356.64k 12401.29k 12530.22k
des ede3 4589.16k 4710.53k 4785.33k 4759.05k 4765.51k
aes-128 cbc 14778.42k 15650.49k 16148.75k 44138.14k 44958.02k
aes-192 cbc 12427.81k 13167.48k 13322.04k 37420.23k 38020.68k
aes-256 cbc 10770.22k 11232.15k 11495.93k 32585.99k 32885.03k
sha256 5399.91k 12679.80k 22259.16k 27965.75k 30307.68k
sha512 4807.39k 19008.23k 29792.79k 41931.95k 47916.40k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
rsa 2048 bits 0.009785s 0.000316s 102.2 3168.6
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 2048 bits 0.003073s 0.003696s 325.4 270.5
- athn limited 802.11n performance
- 802.11ac is not supported
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- Danny Fullerton - Mantor Organization
- Jean-Francois Rioux - Mantor Organization