On Thursday, 21 January 2021 09:55:45 GMT Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
> That's true, if USB is fairly functional that perhaps USB NICs could be
> made to work. It will still need a TCP/IP stack though.
Yes agreed, which is why I only said that I would 'seriously consider' this
device. :-)
> What would the Pico's be doing in that design? All the hardware-related
> stuff like interfacing with probes?
>
> I realise this is very much a hypothetical discussion, but still
> interested :). Does the USB Raspberry Pi networking work well for the
> new Minster system?
USB Networking works extremely well. Once configured it is pretty much
seamless. The only change from the system viewpoint is that the Static IP
Address on the Pi has to be assigned to usb0 instead of eth0.
I should image that throughput would be limited only by the speed of the USB
hardware and would probably be higher than if an Ethernet Adaptor is used
because traffic has still to be carried over USB and then be converted to
TCP/IP
in the Adaptor.
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