BPI-R2 LEDE source code for hardware NAT

Banana Pi Router design
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Source code

The source code is at: https://github.com/garywangcn/bpi-r2_lede

Please clone the code to local and checkout the code from branch bpi-r2-on-lede-v1.

Build

Follow the LEDE building instruction to compile the lede system, the target system is MediaTek Ralink ARM, the config file is attached.

Image

Please download the image I built from below link http://pan.baidu.com/s/1nuXqAVJ

Boot with LEDE image

Step 1: Please program LEDE 2017-09-08 image to emmc by following BPI-R2 New image : Openwrt/LEDE 2017-09-08

Step 2: Boot the board from EMMC, and enter U-boot shell.

Step 3: Load build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a7+neon-vfpv4_musl_eabi/linux-mediatek_32/uImage-mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2-initramfs from host pc(tftp 84000000 uImage-mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2-initramfs). Before loading image, you may need to set/ipaddr/netmask/serverip in uboot

Step 4: Program the image to EMMC by run command:

   mmc dev 0
   mmc write 84000000 1000 5800

IP Forwarding Performance based on hardware NAT

Known limitation

  1. PCIE is disabled because it may cause OS to be hang
  2. HDMI is not validated.
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Before testing IP forwarding, please change the firewall setting in /etc/config/firewall, and then restart firewall(/etc/init.d/firewall restart). Below is for you reference

firewall (4.1 KB)

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Hi gary, I built the system and transfered it to my pi and copied it on emmc. But it cant boot. The uboot promp shows:

MMC read: dev # 0, block # 4096, count 22528 ... 22528 blocks read: OK

bootm flag=0, states=70f
Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 84000000 ...
  Image Name:   MIPS OpenWrt Linux-4.9.44
  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
  Data Size:    3692431 Bytes = 3.5 MiB
  Load Address: 80008000
  Entry Point:  80008000
  Verifying Checksum ... OK
  Loading Kernel Image ... OK

Starting kernel ...

what did I do wrong?

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Did you changed something with uart in dtsi?

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I only did set the ip environment settings, download the file via tftp and write it with mcc…

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does it boot from sd-card?

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I tried it again and … it works :sweat_smile:

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The pcie issue has been fixed, please get the latest code from https://github.com/garywangcn/bpi-r2_lede

A pull request has been created for submitting commits to moore-bros/bpi-r2-on-lede.

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I build the system and I use the mkimage in staging_dir/host/bin create a Multi-File Image.

I can boot the system. But I can`t get any freespace like the image form BPI-R2 New image : Openwrt/LEDE 2017-09-08

How can I do?

command:

mkimage -A arm -T multi -C none -a 80008000 -e 80008000 -n ‘Multi-File Test Image’ -d lede-mediatek-32-uImage-mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2-initramfs:lede-mediatek-32-root.squashfs uMulti

And it return:

Image Name: Multi-File Test Image

Created: Thu Oct 12 22:26:59 2017

Image Type: ARM Linux Multi-File Image (uncompressed)

Data Size: 9897528 Bytes = 9665.55 kB = 9.44 MB

Load Address: 80008000

Entry Point: 80008000

Contents:

Image 0: 5965351 Bytes = 5825.54 kB = 5.69 MB

Image 1: 3932164 Bytes = 3840.00 kB = 3.75 MB

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Can you please try to build and program image to emmc by following instruction?

Instruction

  1. Please clone the latest code from github(https://github.com/garywangcn/bpi-r2_lede/tree/bpi-r2-on-lede-v1) and then follow below steps to build/program both rootfs and uImage :

  2. Run make menuconfig in root directory of bpi-r2_lede

  3. Enable squashfs: Target Images ->squashfs

  4. Rebuild lede by executing command: make

  5. The root.squashfs and uImage-mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2 will be programmed to EMMC via tftp, they are located at build_dir/target…/linux-mediatek_32/

  6. Copy above images to /tftpboot/(please enable tftp service first)

  7. Boot the board to Uboot prompt, configure the IP address/netmask/gatewayip/serverip, make sure the R2 board is able to access tftp server.

  8. Run below command to program uImage-mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2:

    tftp 84000000 uImage-mt7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2

    mmc dev 0

    mmc write 84000000 1000 6000

  9. Run below command to program root.squashfs to EMMC:

    tftp 84000000 root.squashfs

    mmc dev 0

    mmc write 84000000 20A00 6000

10.Run command: boot

Please note that the first reboot will take a few minutes to sync file system.

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Thanks garywang. It works!

“df -h” :

And in LUCI：

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Good news, thanks for your informatio, please let me know if you have any question.

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Image

New test images(kernel and root.squashfs) are available: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1nuXrUTb

How to program both uImage and root file system

  1. Copy both uImagelede and root.squashfs to tftp server

  2. Run below command to program uImagelede

tftp 84000000 uImagelede
mmc dev 0
mmc write  84000000 1000 6000
  1. Run below command to program root.squashfs to EMMC:
tftp 84000000 root.squashfs
mmc dev 0
mmc write 84000000 20A00 6000

  1. Run command: boot

  2. Configure an available IP address and then run below commands when entering OS

opkg update
opkg  install luci-theme-bootstrap
opkg  install luci-mod-admin-full
  1. Connect R2 board via web
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With this image it Will possible to use R2 as a normal router?, i got problems with nat on Ubuntu.

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Yes, it’s possible to make R2 to be a router.

On Ubuntu, the HNAT will NOT be supported, the HNAT is supported based on DSA structure, but there is no DSA within kernel 4.4(ubuntu is using), so it’s a huge task to port HNAT from lede(4.9 kernel) to Ubuntu(4.4 kerenl).

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Can 4.9 from lede be used for ubuntu? Where are problems? If the problem with sd-card in 4.14 can be solved it can also be used.

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Replace the current uImage with v4.14 kernel so that you can run HNAT on Ubuntu. I’ve done it before…

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@Ryder.Lee Is sd-card-problem solved?

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How a can configure my IP Address? I tried it with ifconfig br-lan add … and route add default gw … I can ping my PC successfully but I got no internet

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Hi RW2003

The DNS should be configured and the /etc/config/firewall will be changed, please refer to http://forum.banana-pi.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/84d6c0336af978c299fb73556fd67d896e719d52.png