I'd also say no real advantage to it. Because the CPU in network gear is often much less powerful than any random pc at 1/100th the price. CPU's in routers, lets take Juniper because it's obvious what their CPU is, pretty much do one thing, crunch BGP tables and punt the result to silicon. They also may have to process the first packet of various flows or deal with protocols that haven't yet been burnt to wafers. But not much else if the silicon is sufficiently advanced. Even if the network facing ports dealt with the crypto bits in hardware, the CPU side doesn't seem to be a winner for the rest of the daemon.
Besides, no real carrier would EVER run Tor on their kilobuck line of business router. Even if the Junos BSD shell let's you do it, wink ;-) The advantage would more likely come from the 'just because we can' run it on random available hardware effect. And maybe from the set it and forget it uptimes that router gear has. Best market for such porting efforts might be the millions of home linksys gateway type thingies out there that run some sort of linux under the hood. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/