[LUAU] Which Linux VPN Solution?

[R. Scott Belford]

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