Raspberry Pi router with FreeBSD
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This project is a result of an urge to relearn FreeBSD, as it is quite some time since I still used it. Also, I had spear Raspberry Pi and decided that using a laptop as a router for three people is kind of overkill.
I will in this post used the first Raspberry Pi model B, the one with 256mb ram.
Download FreeBSD
In this post, I have used FreeBSD 10.1
You can get the Raspberry Pi version from here
Creating the SD card
I mainly use OS X, so the few commands needed to create the SD card are specific. The dd command can probably be used the same way on Linux.
List disks:
diskutil list
Unmount the SD card:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX
Write the image to the SD card:
sudo dd bs=1m if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-arm-armv6-RPI-B.img of=/dev/diskX
In case of cached writes, force OS X to sync all writes to disk:
sync
Eject the disk:
diskutil eject /dev/diskX
Bootstrapping FreeBSD
The first time the Pi boots up, it will not have anything set. Login will be root, with no password.
Set password:
passwd
The date will also be very wrong, probably from when the image was created, so change that to:
date yymmddhhmm
Then download the ports collection so we can build packages:
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
This is going to take a long time, so you should probably set it up over night. This also goes for the things we are going to compile.