Due to the overhead that USB puts on the system, I have always avoided USB ethernet. I have seen some latency issues when using the USB bus for USB Ethernet and pushing data to a USB hard drive. But then again, if you need dual NICs on a system, it's basically the only way to ago...
On the OS side: check out http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads They have "a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions." also an Arch Linux image and QtonPi... Raspbian Sneak Peek: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1565 Kinda makes me think that even I could tackle this... Michael Potts GV: (904) 638-2914 | Gtalk: [email protected] @HMHackMaster | http://about.me/MichaelPotts On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Rafael Troncoso said: > > A presentation about RPi will be great. > > Yeah I got two of them too. With one of them I am just substituting my > > old big noisy warm server that runs CentOs. This server act as printer > > server, sftp, ssh and its goodies (tunneling, sock5 proxy) and a git > > repository. > > If any of you turns a RPi into a firewall, please let me know. I'd love > to swap out my mid-tower OpenBSD/pf firewall for some little thirty > watt thing. My firewall is on 24/365, so electricity counts, especially > because I live in the south and not only does my firewall burn > electricity, but then the air conditioner uses more electricity getting > rid of its heat. > > The problem I've had with stuff like Raspberry Pi is not enough > Ethernet ports to make a firewall. People tell me that USB Ethernet > adapters won't even carry the load of 100Mbit, let alone 1Gbit. I spoze > that's not a limitation on the Brighthouse side (10Mbit down, 0.5Mbit > up), but it's close. > > Also, I can't imagine how to get an OpenBSD image onto an SD card so > that the Raspberry Pi would boot it. > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > * http://twitter.com/stevelitt > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
