Beaglebone

The beaglebone is similar to the RPI, but more powerful for microcontroller applications. There are more accessible IO pins. However, on the general use side of things, the beaglebone is less supported than the RPI due to it being targeted for EE types.

PocketBeagle

Connected via usb. Opens up cloud9 IDE, and gives you a web server connected arduino like interface to program the AM355x CPU.

GNU\Linux Sharing internet with Pocketbeagle over USB

Had some trouble with this today. This guide: https://elementztechblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/sharing-internet-using-network-over-usb-in-beaglebone-black/ does NOT work. These guides are also no good: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/520528/sharing-internet-using-network-over-usb-in-raspberry-zero-based-on-beaglebone

You don't need to setup a bridge. It might work that way, but its not required. What works is the following:

Enable packet forwarding

Check the current packet forwarding settings:

# sysctl -a | grep forward

You will note that options exist for controlling forwarding per default, per interface, as well as separate options for IPv4/IPv6 per interface.

Enter this command to temporarily enable packet forwarding at runtime:

# sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Edit /etc/sysctl.d/30-ipforward.conf to make the previous change persistent after a reboot for all interfaces:

/etc/sysctl.d/30-ipforward.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Afterwards it is advisable to double-check forwarding is enabled as required after a reboot. Enable NAT With iptables

# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
# iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
# iptables -A FORWARD -i usb0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

ref: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Sharing

At this point, you will have ip routing, but DNS isn't setup yet. To get DNS working put your preferred name server in /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.1

Note: If you are testing an existing ping, when you change the iptables settings, you must stop / start a new ping to see the changes take effect.