Re: [beagleboard] BBB as a router w/ firewall capabilities

2014-05-16 Thread thedatamatrix
I'm not sure if you saw my original reply to this, which disappeared. In any case, I was able to max out my internet connection finally after applying the linux kernel update you suggested; before it maxed out at about 20Mbit/sec, and now I am reaching the 30Mbit/sec I pay for. However, I have

Re: [beagleboard] BBB as a router w/ firewall capabilities

2014-04-07 Thread dlewin555
There should be a cape to have these 2 NICS, thus using Xenomai -or Charles' Machinekit- is enough for such performances I think. As an example tests on eMMC with latency tests gave an average of 14 µS Le mercredi 2 avril 2014 16:44:58 UTC+2, Richard-tx a écrit : As far as I am concerned the

Re: [beagleboard] BBB as a router w/ firewall capabilities

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Mullin
I've setup my home with a BBB acting as a firewall/router. With the 3.12 kernel, I had problems in high data-volume situations (3+MB/s DL according to my download managers). ksoftirqd would start taking up all the processor and then my packets would be dropped. After upgrading to the 3.13

Re: [beagleboard] BBB as a router w/ firewall capabilities

2014-04-02 Thread Richard-tx
As far as I am concerned the BBB is inapproprite as a firewall To keep performance up as high as possible, two high speed (1 gig) NIC cards are needed. USB is not high speed. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 4:25:05 PM UTC-5, Mike Bell wrote: On 04/01/2014 05:02 PM, vignesh murali wrote: I just

Re: [beagleboard] BBB as a router w/ firewall capabilities

2014-04-01 Thread Mike
On 04/01/2014 05:02 PM, vignesh murali wrote: I just wanted to know whether it would be a good idea to run BBB as a router w/ firewall capability. I intend to use BBB with 1 WAN port and 2 LAN ports(with USB to ethernet dongles) to support a total of 150 users in the network. I am skeptical