Jim Thompson wrote: ---snip much illumination------
> > If you've got a cast-off P3 box, its fairly trivial to give it a pair > of PCI NICs and run m0n0wall from an ISO image. This will result in > higher throughput for the IPSEC side of things. > > The other way to improve performance would be to stick an encryption > accelerator in one of the on-board miniPCI sockets. Soekris sells one > that is plug-n-play with m0n0wall: http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm Does the suggested use of either a P3 box or an encryption accelerator mean that the CPU would become the bottleneck if using IPSEC on a P166 monowall? > > Jim --scott