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NanoPi R6S Review: OpenWrt Router/Mini PC with Dual 2.5GbE

By androidpimpFebruary 1, 2023Updated:January 23, 2024No Comments18 Mins Read
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Nano Pi R6s Router Board
Table of contents
  1. NanoPi R6S
  2. NanoPi R6S Interfaces & Layout
  3. NanoPi R6S Specifications
  4. NanoPi R5S vs. NanoPi R6S – Models Comparison
  5. Interfaces
  6. Hardware
  7. Connectivity
  8. Metal Enclosure
  9. NanoPi R6S Review
    1. Part 1: Board Design, Build Quality, Case Design & Assembly
      1. Design & Build Quality
      2. So What’s New Under the Hood?
      3. Case Design
      4. Assembling the NanoPi 6 inside the Case
  10. Part 2: Software, Memory, Storage, Thermal
    1. Software Support
    2. FriendlyWrt (OpenWrt)
    3. System Resources (Idle Mode)
    4. System Resources
  11. Part 3: Viewing CPU, Memory, Network, Thermal, and Storage
    1. CPU Information (FriendlyWrt)
    2. Memory Information (FriendlyWrt)
    3. Network Cards Controller Information (FriendlyWrt)
    4. Running a self-network throughput sender/receiver test.
  12. iPerf Network throughput between two points (Devices)
    1. 2.5 GbE Link aggregation
    2. Thermal Information (FriendlyWrt)
    3. Disk Space Information (FriendlyWrt)
      1. Listing all block devices (FriendlyWrt)
  13. Price & Availability
    1. NanoPi R6S

Part 2: Software, Memory, Storage, Thermal

Software Support

FriendlyElec company offers three OS images you can choose from. Android TV, FriendlyWrt, Debian buster (Desktop), and Debian jammy. OPNsense will probably is under work as we write this article. Android TV users would be happy to know that there is also an option to use an IR Remote control and the board as a mini portable multimedia system to run Kodi and stream content across the Internet.

FriendlyWrt (OpenWrt)

Friendly installation was straightforward. You got two options to load the system OS files. One is to burn the image on a Micro SD Card and boot. The other is to burn the files into the eMMC storage using the FriendlyElec flasher app. The burning process takes a few seconds. FriendlyElec got rid of the GUI screen during the updating process. Instead, users need to rely on the LED status lights. During updating, the SYS LED starts blinking fast until the LAN1, LAN2, and WAN LEDs turn constant green, indicating the updating process is finished.

The board can best be used for a wide selection of applications starting from a home NAS /printer server. Three (x1 – 1G + x2 – 2.5G) LAN ports make it a perfect choice to be used as a router device, especially for home cybersecurity applications to serve as an extra gateway device bridge between a primary router/switch filtering data to end client devices. FriendlyWrt is based on the OpenWrt fork and customized by the FirendlyElec team. It offers the same advanced functions. You can install the popular Pi-hole app to protect your workstations and filter annoying advertisements.

System Resources (Idle Mode)

From a total of 7.49GIB RAM, only 5% was used. Also, the R6 doesn’t have an M.2 socket, so another option is to plug an external HD through one of the USB Host ports and mount it.

Nano Pi R6 Resources

System Resources

According to the top command, Only 5% RAM was utilized (used), Leaving the user with the remaining 95% free memory. Remember that this check is only for general reference purposes and is taken into consideration that no extra loaded services are running in the background except ssh and a few others, so we didn’t overburden system resources.

Mem: 404044K used, 7452624K free, 33332K shrd, 8416K buff, 185328K cached
CPU:   0% usr   0% sys   0% nic  99% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% sirq
Load average: 0.00 0.03 0.06 2/227 26775
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
 7299     1 root     SN   39264   0%   0% /usr/sbin/netdata -D -c /etc/netdata/netd
22507  7299 root     SN    2808   0%   0% bash /usr/lib/netdata/plugins.d/tc-qos-he
26757 15492 root     R     1344   0%   0% top
11255  5104 root     S     1016   0%   0% odhcp6c -s /lib/netifd/dhcpv6.script -P0
16234     2 root     IW       0   0%   0% [kworker/0:3-eve]
   12     2 root     IW       0   0%   0% [rcu_sched]
   65     2 root     SW       0   0%   0% [kcompactd0]
  365     2 root     IW       0   0%   0% [kworker/2:2-eve]
25884     2 root     IW       0   0%   0% [kworker/u16:1-d]
 7095     1 root     S    37828   0%   0% /usr/sbin/smbd -F
 7320  7095 root     S    36328   0%   0% {smbd-notifyd} /usr/sbin/smbd -F
 7325  7095 root     S    36316   0%   0% {cleanupd} /usr/sbin/smbd -F
 7096     1 root     S    24020   0%   0% /usr/sbin/nmbd -F
 7321  7299 root     SN   12016   0%   0% /usr/sbin/netdata --special-spawn-server
 7722     1 root     S     6152   0%   0% /usr/bin/ttyd /bin/login
 6360     1 root     SN    4600   0%   0% /usr/sbin/collectd -C /tmp/collectd.conf
 5985     1 root     S     4400   0%   0% /usr/sbin/uhttpd -f -h /www -r FriendlyWr
11558 11552 dnsmasq  S     3192   0%   0% /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -C /var/etc/dnsmasq.con
11570 11558 root     S     3188   0%   0% /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -C /var/etc/dnsmasq.con
15492 15473 root     S     2820   0%   0% -bash
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