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At last, we seem to be free... To be precise here move staticarp configure before reload block in interface_configure() to avoid passing a stale ifconfig cache as that would trigger a transition twice. Pass ifconfig cache from where it is available or read it on the fly (e.g. rc.linkup). With that cache we can figure out if a transition is required and so can avoid most of the boot stalling except when staticarp is enabled on a lot of interfaces, but that was always slow(er) later on. It should even be faster now avoiding the ifconfig in the common case. There is a side effect that dhcp wants to populate the ARP table and that is still unconditional because we do not know whether we have new entries added or others removed. Having them removed might leave them in the ARP table for longer than necessary, however. It's not that the current implementation is particularly bad, but it relies heavily on implied regular flushing of ARP entries just to keep a consistent functionality which is a big design flaw. As a stopgap measure remove an ARP entry when we delete the static mapping for it to keep the entries in sync. /var/run/booting remains in backend scripts that should not interfere with boot but we will clean these up later as they do not need removal but rather a transition to a safer way than checking for a file (that might not get deleted for one reason or another.. it has been known to happen).
OPNsense GUI and system management
The OPNsense project invites developers to start contributing to the code base. For your own purposes or – even better – to join us in creating the best open source firewall available.
The build process has been designed to make it easy for anyone to build and write code. The main outline of the new codebase is available at:
https://docs.opnsense.org/development/architecture.html
Our aim is to gradually evolve to a new codebase instead of using a big bang approach into something new.
Build tools
To create working software like OPNsense you need the sources and the tools to build it. The build tools for OPNsense are freely available.
Notes on how to build OPNsense can be found in the tools repository:
https://github.com/opnsense/tools
Contribute
You can contribute to the project in many ways, e.g. testing functionality, sending in bug reports or creating pull requests directly via GitHub. Any help is always very welcome!
License
OPNsense is and will always be available under the 2-Clause BSD license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
Every contribution made to the project must be licensed under the same conditions in order to keep OPNsense truly free and accessible for everybody.
Makefile targets
The repository offers a couple of targets that either tie into tools.git build processes or are aimed at fast development.
make package
A package of the current state of the repository can be created using this target. It may require several packages to be installed. The target will try to assist in case of failure, e.g. when a missing file needs to be fetched from an external location.
Several OPTIONS exist to customise the package, e.g.:
- CORE_DEPENDS: a list of required dependencies for the package
- CORE_DEPENDS_ARCH: a list of special -required packages
- CORE_ORIGIN: sets a FreeBSD compatible package/ports origin
- CORE_FLAVOUR: can be set to "OpenSSL" or "LibreSSL"
- CORE_COMMENT: a short description of the package
- CORE_MAINTAINER: email of the package maintainer
- CORE_WWW: web url of the package
- CORE_NAME: sets a package name
Options are passed in the following form:
# make package CORE_NAME=my_new_name
In general, options are either set to sane defaults or automatically detected at runtime.
make update
Update will pull the latest commits from the current branch from the upstream repository.
make upgrade
Upgrade will run the package build and replace the currently installed package in the system.
make collect
Fetch changes from the running system for all known files.
make lint
Run serveral syntax checks on the repository. This is recommended before issuing a pull request on GitHub.
make style
Run the PSR2 and PEP8 style checks on MVC PHP code and Python, respectively.
make sweep
Run Linux Kernel cleanfile whitespace sanitiser on all files.