[SGVLUG] Current Raspberry Pi info

Michael Proctor-Smith mproctor13 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 18:58:21 PDT 2016


I think most people do not make pis into gateways, as it is pretty limited
bandwidth as the "native" ethernet port is actually a usb to ethernet
adapter. Instead I would say run openwrt on router hardware.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Dustin Laurence <dllaurence at dslextreme.com>
wrote:

> I know that a while back some of you were doing a group Pi buy, so maybe
> someone knows some answers for this question:
>
> I'm thinking I need a Pi as an energy-efficient little server; it seems
> one should be more than enough computer to run squid and dnsmasq.  I'd
> be tempted to make it the gateway as well, but I don't see any native
> dual-headed Pi's.  I'm sure this has been done before--is the standard
> solution to use a USB ethernet adapter, to find a third-party add-on
> board, or to not use a Pi for a gateway?
>
> Dustin
>
>
>
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