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17.1 Legacy Series / Re: Just to say an RPi3 distro would be huge
« on: January 28, 2017, 01:17:49 pm »
Of course you can have a router on a stick with a single physical interface. Firewalls in VMs work pretty well too, no physical interface at all.
Besides Pi 3 has 2 phys out of the box: wifi and ethernet.
The fact that a Pi3 isn't a routing platform is besides the point. Pis are commonly used to manage networks of sensors and small devices, good perimeter protection for those networks is desirable. The switching capacity of the platform is of second or third order in such cases.
There are 10M Pis in the wild, 1M more every 3 months it seems, and no security solution for it.
I have no idea of the demographics of the PC Engines customer base, but something tells me there aren't many 15-y.o. that feel the need and plunk the money for an APU. Let them learn on a Pi, first.
Besides Pi 3 has 2 phys out of the box: wifi and ethernet.
The fact that a Pi3 isn't a routing platform is besides the point. Pis are commonly used to manage networks of sensors and small devices, good perimeter protection for those networks is desirable. The switching capacity of the platform is of second or third order in such cases.
There are 10M Pis in the wild, 1M more every 3 months it seems, and no security solution for it.
I have no idea of the demographics of the PC Engines customer base, but something tells me there aren't many 15-y.o. that feel the need and plunk the money for an APU. Let them learn on a Pi, first.