what about using the onboard ethernet for storage, and USB ethernet dongle for external connection?
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:48 AM, George B <[email protected]> wrote: > Darn. I was thinking today that I would have a great application for a BBB > if it had a second ethernet interface for a separate storage network. Say > mount a ceph block device over one ethernet interface and use the other for > "business" traffic with no reason to hit the SD or on-board flash at all > while it is running. The primary bottleneck in the application I have been > investigating so far is disk access. Flash is slow. Network storage is > much faster. Separating storage from traffic is even better, particularly > when you have only a 100M interface. I have been doing it with vlans but > still, the two sorts of traffic compete for interface bandwidth. If I found > a genie right now, one of my three wishes would be a dual ethernet BBB. > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 6:17:27 PM UTC-7, Ventura wrote: >> >> Unfortunately some pins are not available to support a cape with a second >> LAN8710A... >> >> On Friday, November 11, 2011 9:17:18 AM UTC-6, Gerald wrote: >>> >>> I do not have a listing of the pins used on the board and their default >>> settings. The only way right now is to look a the schematic and the function >>> they are performing. The USB ports for example can only be USB ports and >>> nothing else, so there really isn't a pin mux option there except for 1 pin >>> on each of those ports. >>> >>> >>> >>> Gerald >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:12 AM, David Goodenough >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I found the Pin Mux utility on the TI web site (which by way seems to >>>> run >>>> quite nicely under Wine - there is no need to run it under Windows) and >>>> was having a look at configuring it to see if I could find the second >>>> ethernet ports. >>>> >>>> Is there a definition somewhere of the basic set of Pin configs >>>> necessary >>>> for the standard ports that BeagleBone uses? I looked in the SRM and >>>> could not find such a list (but I may have missed it). I am here >>>> thinking >>>> of the ports needed by things like the two USB ports and the serial port >>>> that is linked to the USB port. >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>>> On Friday 11 Nov 2011, Gerald Coley wrote: >>>> > Possibly. I am not sure if all the signals are available depending on >>>> > the >>>> > mode you plan to use. I have not had the time document all of the >>>> > possible >>>> > options. In the SRM it has the pin numbers for the processor on the >>>> > expansion header tables. Use those numbers against the pin numbers in >>>> > the >>>> > processor data sheet to see if there are enough signals. There should >>>> > be a >>>> > grouping in the data sheet for the various ports. >>>> > >>>> > Gerald >>>> > >>>> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:25 AM, David Goodenough < >>>> > >>>> > [email protected]> wrote: >>>> > > Reading the TechRef it would appear the the second Ethernet port is >>>> > > available, but in the SRM there would appear to be no reference to >>>> > > the second port. Could a second port be added on a cape? >>>> > > >>>> > > David >>>> > > >>>> > > -- >>>> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> > > Groups >>>> > > "Beagle Board" group. >>>> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> > > [email protected]. >>>> > > For more options, visit this group at >>>> > > http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard?hl=en. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Beagle Board" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard?hl=en. >>>> >>> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
