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New Raspberry Pi Model B+

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Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#33
post #8

Still Ethernet via USB 2.0, which means it is not actually gigabit.

I also noticed that. It's only ~280 megabits so seems a bit dishonest to call it gigabit. I guess what they mean is "gigabit ethernet standard" i.e. 1000BASE-T.

Also how does it act once its internal receive buffer is full? Is it possible to get the sender to slow down, or does it have to start dropping frames? Will important things such as ARP broadcasts and DHCP requests just risk getting lost?

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#35
post #16

PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve…

Didn't they already have pxe support on the Model 3B? This is just a bug fixed version (and enabled by default).

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#36

> If you’ve been a Raspberry Pi watcher for a while now, you’ll have a bit of a feel for how we update our products. Model B... Model A... Model B+... When can we expect to see the Raspberry Pi Master and the Raspberry Pi Master Compact?

Raspberry Pi Pro Raspberry Pi Air Retina Raspberry Pi

Im prepping for Raspberry Pi X

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#37
post #16

PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve…

Why not just use a USB microphone?

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#38
post #16

PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve…

FYI PXE booting has been possible for a while now: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#39
post #8

Still Ethernet via USB 2.0, which means it is not actually gigabit.

I also noticed that. It's only ~280 megabits so seems a bit dishonest to call it gigabit. I guess what they mean is "gigabit ethernet standard" i.e. 1000BASE-T. Also how does it act once its internal receive buffer is full? Is it possible to get the sender to slow down, or does it have to start dropping frames? Will important things such as ARP broadcasts and DHCP requests just risk getting lost?

When the internal receiver buffer is full, you drop the frames.

Basically any protocol out there has some way of dealing with dropped packets (including UDP's "don't care")

DHCP requests are usually repeated several times for this reason, the first one can get lost (this can and will happen even on a clean and underloaded gigabit homenetwork)

Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+

#40
post #28
post #8

Still Ethernet via USB 2.0, which means it is not actually gigabit.

I am using a BananaPi for this. It also has a SATA port which makes it handy for a NAS. Processor and RAM are also a good bang for the buck.

What is your experience with platform support (linux) with the BananaPi?
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