Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS is a single-board computer with Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor, and 1GB RAM. It also has a Micro-SD Card slot that we will using onboard storage. This guide provides step-by-step instructions to deploy Cyber Gateway on Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS.
In most deployments, the Cyber Gateway will sit between the WiFi Router (or Enterprise Ethernet switch) and the ISP Modem as shown below.
Note: Your LAN network cable will go into the WAN port on the Orange Pi while your WAN port (towards the ISP) will go in the LAN port. This is counter-intuitive and deviates from standard configurations to deliver optimized performance from the Orange Pi.
Before deployment, make sure you have everything in the checklist below.
Number |
Item |
Quantity |
Remarks |
1 |
1 (2) |
2 for HA (high availability deployment) per cyber gateway |
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2 |
1 |
1 for each Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS box |
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3 |
1 (2) |
2 for HA |
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4 |
1 |
To burn image on the SD card |
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5 |
2 (4) |
Each Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS box requires a LAN and a WAN cable |
Please follow the step-by-step instructions below:
The LAN and WAN interfaces on the Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS are rated at 1 Gb/s. The typical WAN speeds you will achieve will be dependent upon your ISP bandwidth. When your ISP bandwidth is 500 Mb/s or higher, you would typically see 400+ Mb/s speeds as shown in one of the speed tests below. Note that in the below test, uplink speed was limited by the ISP cap of 50 Mb/s. When your ISP supports higher upload speeds such as 500 Mb/s, you will see upload speeds similar to the download speeds in the 400-500 Mb/s range.
On the LAN, you should see typical speeds in the 800-900 Mb/s range on a 1 Gb/s port. An iperf3 TCP throughput result for the LAN traffic is provided below where we are seeing throughput of 878 Mb/s
root@cgw1:~# iperf3 -c 192.168.41.5
Connecting to host 192.168.41.5, port 5201
[ 5] local 192.168.41.251 port 39984 connected to 192.168.41.5 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 98.4 MBytes 825 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 106 MBytes 886 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 106 MBytes 892 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 107 MBytes 892 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.01 sec 103 MBytes 863 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 5.01-6.01 sec 107 MBytes 898 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 6.01-7.01 sec 107 MBytes 891 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 7.01-8.00 sec 106 MBytes 899 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 107 MBytes 900 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 101 MBytes 847 Mbits/sec 0 421 KBytes
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.02 GBytes 879 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.02 GBytes 878 Mbits/sec receiver
TBC