Welcome to the OPNsense documentation & wiki.
The purpose of this project is to provide OPNsense users with quality documentation.
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!
OPNsense documentation is 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.
Some pictures are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Logos may be subject to additional copyrights, property rights, trademarks etc. and may require the consent of a third party or the license of these rights. Deciso B.V. does not represent or make any warranties that it owns or licenses any of the mentioned, nor does it grant them.
On FreeBSD the following packages are required:
pkg install python py311-pip jpeg-turbo gmake
Install Sphinx, our default theme and contrib packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade
A script is provided to update the api endpoint documentation, this can be executed using:
./collect_api_endpoints.py --repo core /path/to/core/repository
./collect_api_endpoints.py --repo plugins /path/to/plugins/repository
gmake html
(gmake clean to flush)
Use sphinx-autobuild to track source for changes and get a live preview served via http://localhost:8000.
pip install sphinx-autobuild
sphinx-autobuild source build/html
BIOS ROM images are written to Deciso appliances using a FAT32 formatted (thumb) drive containing in its root directory
the combined contents of the source/hardware/files/BIOS_update_sources.zip file and the latest platform-specific
compressed BIOS ROM image. The BIOS_update_sources directory contains the EFI boot structure to trigger the
startup.nsh file when booting from the drive and kickstart the update using the LATEST.FD file.
The SHA256 hash of the BIOS_update.sources.zip file:
0cf1b042223482ea073a7a3599d6170be7c849ff8399936cf5a9db1ec5406dcf BIOS_update_sources.zip
To create a publishable archive, use the provided make_bios.py script and give it the platform type, version number and
source .fd file:
./make_bios.py --platform <A10|A20|A30> --version <version> --source <.FD filename>
Example output:
2d5143f221fa120ef6d5c8799a90bd2c08e8238b3b9dd350327336d0605944a6 source/hardware/files/A10_v30_bios.tar.gz
A SHA256 hash of the resulting compressed archive is provided for integrity checking.
