Henning Brauer wrote:
no. there is no benefit from SMP in this case.
I believe you. In fact, many Cisco VPN routers came with a 400-700 Mhz Intel PII or PIII cpu's which could handle a few thousand IPSEC connections.
I've had a good throughput with a 1.0 Ghz PIII with a large number of clients.
-Bruno