As far as I am concerned the BBB is inapproprite as a firewall To keep performance up as high as possible, two high speed (1 gig) NIC cards are needed. USB is not high speed.
On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 4:25:05 PM UTC-5, Mike Bell wrote: > > On 04/01/2014 05:02 PM, vignesh murali wrote: > > I just wanted to know whether it would be a good idea to run BBB as a > > router w/ firewall capability. I intend to use BBB with 1 WAN port and > > 2 LAN ports(with USB to ethernet dongles) to support a total of 150 > > users in the network. I am skeptical about the load the BBB can > > handle with the above said numbers. Any suggestions? > > Wild guess... I would say the USB dongles would be where you hit the > wall. The BBB has more than enough CPU power, RAM might become a factor > with that many users with a lot of rules. > > LEAF has an ARM port for Rpi. I don't recall if it's in main or not. I > would think the same hurdles would apply here for that number of users. > > Seems to me for the money a Sokeris (sp?) board or something similar > might be more appropriate. > > My 2 cents worth anyway. > > Mike > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
