sophos_utm_pcengines_apu2
PC Engines APU2 - Sophos UTM 9 Free Home
This how-to was made using the following items:
PCEngines APU2 board.
16GB SSD (64GB would be better).
USB Drive (USB2 installation media).
USB Keyboard (only for installation).
Sophos UTM 9 (asg-9.506-2.1) ISO.
Network connected to first interface (next to serial port).
Lessons learned:
Install is a bit difficult.
Snort takes a lot of CPU (>90% on a single thread), during a speedtest download speed is now around 50mbit instead of 120. Intrusion Prevention active with 1718 of 31918 patterns.
Prepare
Install
Boot APU2, press F10 and select USB drive.
At the welcome screen (Welcome to Sophos UTM 9!), press F3
Enter:
default console=ttyS0,115200
<Start>
<Ok>
Keyboard settings
Timezone
Date / Time
Network
64 bit kernel
All capabilities
Press
alt-f2
and type the following,
in the blind and before partitioning the hard drive:
beep # To confirm you are typing in a shell
ifconfig eth0 up # Up the first interface
ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4/24 # Use free IP-address in your subnet
# Test ping from other machine.
passwd root # Then enter new root password twice
/etc/init.d/dropbear start # Start SSHd
Log in, using SSH, from another machine.
Mount USB to /install:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /dev/sdb1 /install
Press alt-f1
and continue with the installation. It will take around 15 minutes to install.
After boot you will hear a few beeps.
Open the webgui to continue configuration.
sophos_utm_pcengines_apu2.txt · Last modified: 2019/02/01 08:37 by admin