There should be a cape to have these 2 NICS, thus using Xenomai -or 
Charles' Machinekit- is enough for such performances I think. As an example 
tests on eMMC with latency tests gave an average of 14 µS

Le mercredi 2 avril 2014 16:44:58 UTC+2, Richard-tx a écrit :
>
> 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 
>>
>

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