Regarding USB Ethernet, I believe the existing Ethernet port on the Raspberry Pi is attached to the USB controller. It may not be that much *additional *overhead to use another USB Ethernet adapter, to use it as a router/firewall.
Jess On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Michael Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > > > >
