Re: New Pi 5 (Diversity - good or bad ?)

On 1/12/25 9:52 AM, Lars Poulsen wrote:

On 12/01/2025 13:46, Lars Poulsen wrote:

The one thing I was missing on Pi-4 was a second ethernet port so I
could use it as a firewall/edge router with room for all the monitoring
capabilities I could dream up to implement with PCAP.
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Dongle-attached extra ethernet ports are a bit unstable in my
experience. Often have spotty Linux driver support, often get
redesigned with a different ethernet chip with no visible/noticeable
change in product name or packaging. Being on an ARM system makes the
problems stemming from this several steps worse.

 On 2025-01-12, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Plenty of Pi ethernet hats available...

 Yes, but then I'd have to find or make an enclosure that fits the board
SET.

   Yea ... good point ... all the Pi boxes are only
   big enough to hold JUST the Pi ... no hats. You
   can find taller boxes for Arduino's but .......
   Anyway, from the Pi3 on you didn't really NEED
   an ethernet hat unless you needed multiple
   plugs - like for a router/firewall or something.
   See 'ipFire' or similar. Used it, worked good,
   FUNNY name :-)
   While attractive, some micro-PCs might be even
   better for that than a Pi. Check SuperMicro - they
   have some very small boards/boxes that are perfect
   for that kind of need. Impressive boards actually,
   connectors for interfaces even I'd never heard of.