Going back to the need of having two ethernet ports, you can also run a firewall on one ethernet port, although it might not be a good practice, but maybe good enough for a home firewall.
Rafa On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jess Hires <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >> > >> > >> -- If you have freedom to choose, choose freedom, use GNU/Linux --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
