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Raspberry Pi networking box with proxies, needing help building one.

xan326

I've seen the Onion Pi (Raspberry Pi with Tor) networking box, but I have a slight issue with that.

First I need something with gigabit ethernet, as that's the speeds of the network I'm using.

Second I need a second ethernet port, I need ehternet in then have the packets either go to the wifi dongle and the second port.

I haven't done much research on what the Pi is capable of, so I'm new to it. I know arduino has shields and beaglebone has capes, does the Pi have anything like that?

I will also be running more then just Tor on this, I will also use I2P and Privoxy. I have found this site showing how to use the three together.

I'm not sure where to even start on this, so I'm asking all of you for help in creating this. Also if it's possible can more ethernet out ports be put on? If it's not I could just buy a hub or switch (I've been out of networking so I'm kind of rusty on which is which).

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  • Hello Zander, the Pi doesn't have gigabit Ethernet on board. I'm not sure if the on-board processor could even cope with that. The bus is shared with the USB port(s) if I remember correctly, so if gigabit Ethernet is critical to you, I don't think the Pi will be for this project.

     

    My first question would be, is Gigabit Ethernet really required ? You can quite easily have mixed speeds on the same network, so is such a high throughput really critical to you ?

     

    Steve

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  • Hello Zander, the Pi doesn't have gigabit Ethernet on board. I'm not sure if the on-board processor could even cope with that. The bus is shared with the USB port(s) if I remember correctly, so if gigabit Ethernet is critical to you, I don't think the Pi will be for this project.

     

    My first question would be, is Gigabit Ethernet really required ? You can quite easily have mixed speeds on the same network, so is such a high throughput really critical to you ?

     

    Steve

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  • in reply to GreenYamo

    The bus is shared with the USB port(s) if I remember correctly,

    You remember correctly image

     

    My suggestion to you @  is that you use something other than the Pi for this project.  Reasons:

    1)  The Pi has one Ethernet Port that uses USB speeds (10/100 Mbit), therefore you would have to realy on the WiFi as your backup connection.  (which isn't what you want to do)

    2)  It is not very powerful compared to a proper server that would normally run a proxy.  And you have expressed above that you want a high speed network.

     

    I do hope you find a way to make your project work for you, with or without the Pi.