My understanding is that the main FW-1 driver is single-threaded, so it
does not take advantage of additional CPUs. Other minor CP processes
might be multi-threaded, but not enough to make a big difference.
I've read that the latest SP3 can be configured to use additional
processors as psuedo-VPN-accelerators. In other words, you can
configure it to offload the encryption task to the additional
processors. This can't be done if you have a real HW VPN accelerator
card installed. Obviously, this only helpful if you are using VPN-1,
but for VPN users it could be quite useful.
Mark L. Decker
Rainfinity
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.rainfinity.com
(408) 382-4870
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