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Sophos on pcengines APU?

tomba_nzxt
Hi guys!

First of all - my big bow to all of you making it possible for home users to use sophos utm! There are many different things out there and among all of them - you remain streamlined, organized and offer a professional product at no cost for home users. KUDOS!

I have been using sophos for couple of years and i always had one tripping point: size of HW. I mean, there are mini itx solutions and thin itx standard, but it always turns out looking like a pc and not like a small nice firewall/router.

PcEngines has made a new board that is only 6" x 6", fits in their super small case, has 3 Giga lan ports and mini pci slots for wifi card. The box uses 6-12w under full load and is completely passive!

So - now the big question - will sophos run on this board?

Here is the board:

PC Engines apu1c product file

I hope this will/can work so that i can buid the fw that performs well and that my wife finds it acceptable to stay under the TV set [:)]

cheers

Tomba


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  • +1

    It's been a while since this, but for people looking into having Sophos on a PCEngines APU board, I can tell you this really got MUCH easier with XG firewall.

    I just received my APU2C4 board with 4Gb of RAM and I must say I'm quite impressed. I have a 300Mb down 30Mb up WAN and this little thing really manages it great. In fact, if I download at full speed the CPU is at about 30%. I havent enabled anything but firewall (obviously) and web proxy (with antivirus) for now but I don't feel any lag whatsoever. I still have to do more testing though.

    To install XG in a new PCEngines APU2 board, just follow these steps:

    - Install SSD of your choice and burn the XG ISO in a CD

    - Connect the serial cable to your serial port

    - Connect to the serial console using Putty and choose 38400 as speed

    - Boot it up and run from the CD. Follow the instructions to install it, but basically this means you just have to press "y" once and it will install everything, really.

    If you wanted to do a blind installation (without serial) you could just hook up the USB CD reader, connect the power, wait about 1-2 minutes to give it time to ask for confirmation and then press "y". Wait another 5-10 minutes to allow it time to install.

    After the installation has finished you wont hear 5 beeps. Instead you will hear a music tune through the inbult speaker!! That's when you can remove the CD, disconnect the power from the APU and put it back on.

    Lastly, just connect your computer to port 1 and you will get an IP automatically (otherwise just put yourself at 172.16.16.17) and you can access https://172.16.16.16:4444 and start configuring it!

    Thanks Sophos for making XG a console-friendly install!!

  • 0 in reply to guillerone

    What version bzw. image file of Xg firewall use you? I tested it with the two 16.xx Versions both have the same problem when I type y + enter to start the installation the Installer go to reboot and install nothing.

  • 0 in reply to Johan@NetStream

    ReneeH : I used 16.05.1, it did not give me any problems. Try doing a blind install instead (without console) and see if that helps anything.

    Sorry for taking so long to answer, I do not read this normally.

  • 0 in reply to guillerone

    By the way, after a few weeks of using the APU with the XG software, I must say the performance of this thing is amazing. Normally the load is about 2%, and when I use my 300Mb connection at full load it goes up to 20-30% max, with firewall, web protection, web server protection, APT and antivirus activated (no IPS or email, I don't need them). Also, a 30Gb SSD is more than enough space for everything.

  • 0 in reply to guillerone

    I tested it with a blind install, is the same shit I press y enter and the system reboots. Nice work Sophos you are number one in Scrap software [:@]

  • 0 in reply to ReneeH

    I would say that if it works for others it may not be Sophos fault necesarily. It could be though. If I were you I would try using a different SSD. It could be a matter of the OS not detecting the SSD or something similar. Give it a try. If trying a blind install didn't work I would stick to the normal console install. I used Putty by the way.

  • 0 in reply to guillerone

    Im using it on APU on few sites, my home, my parrents, friends...Everywhere it works just fine, installation since 9.4 is not blind, console on serial port is enabled, so installation procedure is thru putty or whatever serial client easy...

    APU with 64GB SSD, at home running all services and filtering, connected AP55C, AP15C and one AP15.

  • 0 in reply to guillerone

    Is there any chance to install XG from a USB Stick? I've been trying this for some time and I can see the system coming up, asking me to press F10 to enter the boot menu (which I can get into) and than I can choose from four options. It doesn't matter though if I choose to boot from USB tick, the systems starts from the built-in msata hard disk.

    Thanks!

     

    Edit: I just tried the same procedure as before (all hardware was exactly the same) but I used the UTM image. Now it works. So it has to something with the XG image...

  • 0 in reply to TimBenkert

    XG on APU works fine, without any issue, you need to change terminal baud speed for installation, APU runs 115200 and i think XG at 38400...

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