2022 Update on Itus Firmware
Posted by
Grommish on
Apr 19, 2022; 11:25pm
URL: https://itus.accessinnov.com/2022-Update-on-Itus-Firmware-tp2191.html
For anyone who still monitors this site:
The Itus Shield has been updated on OpenWrt to support the 5.10 LTS kernel. I am currently running the OpenWrt master branch on the Linux 5.15 kernel.
While OpenWrt
only supports the (R)outer slot, my personal repo has re-enabled the (B)ridge and (G)ateway slots. If anyone wants a custom image for those slots, or the commit to re-enable those slots for their own build, feel free to ask.
Other notables:
I have a working rust-lang implementation that I'm working to incorporate into OpenWrt's build system. This allows for rust-lang packages, including Suricata 6, to be used.
I have incorporated RAM Swap in my images along with zstd compression, which significantly increases the usable RAM footprint.
root@OpenWrt:/# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 5.15.31 #0 SMP Sun Apr 3 05:52:36 2022 mips64 GNU/Linux
root@OpenWrt:/# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 965972 45860 889788 1224 30324 879788
Swap: 652028 0 652028
root@OpenWrt:/#
Additionally, OpenWrt master branch has moved to Firewall4, and can I can demonstrate full throughput through the WAN ports. This is (surprisingly) the case even through Suricata 6, with almost no loss of speed even though it is inspecting the packets. This in through my local network BUT out the WAN port.
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 113 MBytes 951 Mbits/sec 31 234 KBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 110 MBytes 919 Mbits/sec 44 208 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 108 MBytes 902 Mbits/sec 0 208 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 111 MBytes 927 Mbits/sec 0 212 KBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 112 MBytes 937 Mbits/sec 94 224 KBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 110 MBytes 923 Mbits/sec 0 224 KBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 110 MBytes 920 Mbits/sec 0 224 KBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 112 MBytes 940 Mbits/sec 32 235 KBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 113 MBytes 947 Mbits/sec 29 234 KBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 108 MBytes 909 Mbits/sec 0 234 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.08 GBytes 928 Mbits/sec 230 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.08 GBytes 927 Mbits/sec receiver
It isn't dead yet! :)
Running Itus Shield v2 Firmware