I was thinking of various uses one could put a Raspberry Pi to, and a question occurred to me. I know the Model B (and B+) have an Ethernet port built in. Has anyone ever seen a shield, or other method (besides USB) of including an additional port on the Pi? I know that the GPIO pins will allow you to do a lot via shields and/or expansion boards connected via ribbon cable, but I don't know if there's a good way of linking the GPIO pins to the pins to the pins of an Ethernet controller (or Fast Ethernet or whatever). Does anyone know of such a device? If so, does it work with the standard Raspbian distro? I know there are "Ethernet shields" for Arduino, but then I'd have to write a heck of a lot more code to do the same thing as I can accomplish with Raspbian on the Pi and a board that provides an extra Ethernet port. Not to mention how much slower an Arduino is compared to the CPU on the RPi.
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