Select Continue with default keymap (default option) and press ENTER Type installer at the login: prompt and type opnsense as the password to enter the installation page Now ODYSSEY-X86 will boot from the USB flash drive into OPNsense and you will see the following output if it boots successfully Go to Save & Exit tab, select Save Changes and Reset and select Yes for the pop up window Go to Boot tab, select Boot Option #1 and select UEFI: USB, Partition 1 Turn on ODYSSEY-X86 and continuosly press DELETE key to enter BIOS ODYSSEY-X86 has a number of storage options such as:

Attach an external storage drive to install OPNsense. Connect the USB flash drive that we flashed the OPNsense image before to one the of the USB ports on the ODYSSEY-X86 Connect a USB flash drive to your PC, click Flash from file, select the downloaded/ extracted file from before, click Select target, choose the connected USB flash drive and click Flashīoot OPNsense from flash drive and install on external drive Download and install BalenaEtcher according to your OS by visiting this link and open it

Select amd64 as the Architecture, vga as the image type, choose any Mirror Location and click Download Visit this link to open the download page of OPNsense Flash OPNsense image to a USB flash drive Now let's go through the process of installing OPNsense on ODYSSEY-X86. Also other features can be added via plugins.Ģ Ethernet cables and a router with access to internetĮxternal storage media (If you use ODYSSEY-X86 with built-in eMMC, you can use that as well)

Not only it can act as a firewall, but also it has traffic shaping, load balancing, and virtual private network capabilities. OPNsense has a web-based GUI and supports x86-64 platform. It is a fork of pfSense, which in turn was forked from m0n0wall. OPNsense is an open source firewall and routing software based on FreeBSD operating system which is developed by Deciso. This guide explains how to turn your ODYSSEY-X86 into a software router and firewall by installing OPNsense.

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