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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. Move the “Optical drive” to the second on the Boot Order.This guide explains how to turn your ODYSSEY-X86 into a software router and firewall by installing OPNsense. Select “Hard disk” from the boot order and move it to the first position using the up arrow button present next to it.ģ. After installation when the VM reboots it will boot from the Hard disk.Ģ. During the initial setup, the hard disk will be empty and it will boot from the Optical Drive. Therefore, changing the boot order to hard disk first and optical drive second will be more appropriate.

We don’t want that we want it to boot from the hard disk after installation. There is nothing wrong with that, however, after installation, the OPNsense VM will reboot and it will follow the same boot order again. The default boot order loads the “Floppy drive” first, since it is empty, it will load the second option the “Optical Drive” which contains the attached OPNsense ISO image. Once the ISO image is attached, you should the OPNsense ISO image instead of “Empty”.Īdditionally, it is a good idea to change the boot order. Locate the OPNsense ISO image on your computer and add it.