On 7 Apr 2013, at 11:58, Maurice Poisson Adriasola wrote: > On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Andrea Fino wrote: > >> On 04/06/2013 07:18 PM, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > > snip > >>> Am 06.04.2013 18:27, schrieb Joep L. Blom: >>>> Since mid 2012 a very small system has appeared on the market under >>>> the >>>> name of the Raspberry PI. > > snip > >>>> Of course it has only 1 ethernet card on board and only 2 USB ports >>>> but >>>> it has also GPIO pins to be used for peripherals. > > snip > >>> With only 1 NIC it does not fit really well for router. But at least >>> LEAF can boot on a Raspberry Pi - a playground for probably new ideas. >> >> Just wondering if I could put some usb-ethernet adapters or such on it. >> Is that feasible? > > Does the single Ethernet support VLAN tagged frames? Combining a one > Ethernet port LEAF host with a simple VLAN capable Ethernet switch, > linked to the routing host via a 801.1Q tagged trunk should result in a > multiport firewall.
USB <-> Ethernet adaptors should work, but performance might not be very good. The on-board Ethernet NIC is actually connected via the USB bus anyway. 802.1q is provided by a separate kernel module and (in my experience) will be available on any device that runs Bering-uClibc, so routing between different VLANs should work too. I use a 3-NIC ALIX device like that to route "internal" traffic, but using separate physical NICs to keep the Internet and DMZ connections separate from the more trusted connections. david ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
