On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:57:02PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'm not sure I can actually > use it, but if I do, I now know where to buy them from. > > I also got a reply about the USB (I don't know if it was to me > direct or to the list, so I'll just say thanks and summarize to the > list): > > The model A has a single USB port on the board. It is connected > directly to the USB type A port. > > The model B also has the single USB port. It is connected to a three > port hub. The hub is connected to the two USB type A connectors and > a USB ethernet interface. > > So the USB bandwidth is shared between both type A ports and ethernet. > > I was speaking today to someone who is in contact with people > working downward in the same direction I am working upward. I was > looking at taking a Raspberry Pi and building an application on it. > > The people he was speaking to already had the application running on > X86 hardware and were in the process of porting it to DD-WRT routers > and the Raspberry Pi. They are having problems because the single > USB port does not provide enough bandwidth
I'm a bit surprised that the USB bandwidth is the bottle neck here. Do you actually get that much of network traffic and USB traffic? > > In my case it may be possible as I only want to go one direction, > they were going two. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
