[SGVLUG] Current Raspberry Pi info

[Claude Felizardo]

Dustin,  I assume you meant dual-homed for ethernet not dual-head which usually means multiple monitor support.

Depending on your internet connection and/or expected traffic, a Pi might be sufficient as a gateway but as I see that Mike has responded, you would need to add another network interface at which point I would agree that you will probably want to use a dedicated router with the ability to run what ever additional services such as squid and dnsmask, etc.  

Sure you could do it yourself but at some point it's easier for you and the family to just use Commercial off-the-shelf devices that can easily be replaced [, reflashed] and configured.  Plus I'm still shy about using a Pi for "critical" applications where a corrupted SD card due to a power failure can cause the Pi to act flakey or refuse to boot.

Doh, I just saw Jess's reply, interesting about using a USB 3 gigabit adapter to more than double the network speed but again, once you start hanging all those dongles on what started as a small form factor and it's no longer really practical other than as an experiment.

Claude
 



> On 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
> 
>