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Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-spe
by scottlamb 11y ago
Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-benchmarks/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3-specs-bench...:
> The Raspberry Pi 3 shares the same SMSC LAN9514 chip as its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 2, adding 10/100 Ethernet connectivity and four USB channels to the board. As before, the SMSC chip connects to the SoC via a single USB channel, acting as a USB-to-Ethernet adaptor and USB hub.
- mschuster91 11y ago> Sadly, no, the Raspberry Pi 3 still seems to do everything over the USB bus. It'd make an awful router Not exactly, the BT/WiFi chip is apparently running via SDIO. But yes, that doesn't help with the Ethernet situation. I don't get why Broadcom, when they already do a custom SoC, didn't include one or two MII lines and use a real Ethernet PHY instead.
- rjsw 11y agoThey wouldn't even need to buy in IP for the Ethernet MAC, they already have their own.