Often, there is cryptographic hardware acceleration in router devices, but it wirking depends on there being software support and having that installed and configured. I didn't know Tomato was still alive. OpenWrt has support for ARM devices, and many others. If you are hacking, OpenWrt is a probably the best choice, because it gives you choices. Most of the other firmware implementations assume an application. Which device were you having trouble with?
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:45 AM, james wrathall <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been experimenting with using dd-wrt to make a router that has > OpenVPN capabilities. I have had success, and am seeing my precious 30Mbps > bandwidth drop to 16Mbps in one case and to 7Mbps in another case. The CPU > speed differences of the routers in each case exactly corresponded to the > performance differences. I suppose I should be satisfied, but of course, I > am not. Digging deeper, I found out that OpenVPN (or any VPN) requires a lot > of floating point activity, and the Broadcom chips do not have this > capability built into silicon. I am wondering if ARM processors in general > and the ARM9 in particular have built in floating point? I have looked > about, and can't find this info. If it does, there seems to be at least a > few consumer-grade routers that have ARM9, like this one: > http://www.arm.com/markets/enterprise/netgear-rangemax-next-wireless-n-router.php > > I think the Tomato project is working with ARM architecture... > > Thanks... Jim W. > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
