A new dual 10G router based on Filogic 880 (Banana Pi BPi-R4)

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Here they say what they are aiming for.

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Looks like it's available to buy https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r4-router-board-with-mediatek-mt7988a-filogic-880-public-sale/16666

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Tempting af :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Ahh, grabbed one for fun.

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Is your shipping date early Dec?

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Something like that, but i'll be at home after 15 december so i don't mind konger shipment. Bought also other nice things to play with. Now i need cheap 25/40 gig switch.

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I am particularly interested in the 10GB ports, and the M.2 KeyB for 5G (USB 3.2) slot, I hope one can use the Quectel 5G RM521F-GL in this slot to it’s full capacity? Also interested in the slot for WiFi 7 module.
Looks to be a beast.

I should order one of these, though, waiting for them to be available on Amazon.
That's where I got my BPI-R3 kit from.

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Anyone understand this?

  • 2x 10Gbe SFP slot (option 1x 10Gbe SFP and 1x SOC embedded 2.5Gbe PHY. NOTE: Need to modify hardware)
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From what I can tell they just ship a board with a modified layout? I don't think they expect the customer to modify it themselves...

This is the SFP+ / 2,5 GbE layout (just a single SFP cage instead of two):

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I believe the shipped board should be 2 x SFP+ cages, and you need modifications to get 2.5G ethernet.

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These now seem to be on stock at Ali, anybody tried one already? Dual 10G is very tempting for my 10G fiber (currently on a RB5009 which is a bit limited there...)

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Can the MT7988A switch push 10 Gbps internally?

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The packet processing engine (PPE) which is part of the Ethernet fabric promises to be able to handle 10GE NAT/routing/bridge offloading between all interfaces, incl. MT7996 WiFi via PCIe, even IPSec tunnel encap/decap and ESP (and AH?) offloading is supported by the hardware -- but not yet with drivers in vanilla Linux.

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Does R4 or R3 have any crypto acceleration for wireguard? I can't find any info on this.
Thanks.

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R3 CPU in same as MT6000

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i ordered my r4 now, guess it will be here in 2-3 weeks. wondering whats the current situation with openwrt. banana pi says it supports openwrt, but on https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/sinovoip/bananapi_bpi-r4 it says "not supported".
i assume its WIP?

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Banana Pi uses OpenWrt and put their own patches to make it work, it's not upstreamed to Linux kernel that's why official OpenWrt says "not supported".

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thanks, and is it possible to take those patches and apply them to mainline? is this supposed to happen or is there something that blocks that? i would love to use latest official openwrt on that device. I also noticed they use v21.xx, oldstable is v22. Are there any security related issues? Is v21 even still supported?

created https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r4-wifi-7-router-board-with-mediatek-mt7988a-filogic-880-4g-ram-and-8g-emmc/15757/62?u=oli and listed my problems. seems like its not possible to build an image for stable openwrt that is still maintained.

edit: i got an answer and it seems like they try to release a 23.x version and in 1-2 weeks there should be support for openwrt in snapshot. would be great.

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If there are enough information disclosed for the community to work on, I think it's possible, but no one can tell timeline.

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@fakemanhk Your link is broken try to link to: https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R4

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Link updated (don't know why was it removed from the page suddenly)