WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> You might be surprised how little it takes, actually ...

  I might at that.

  It also depends on the speed of the network.  If you're connecting
via a relatively slow Internet link, you don't need much CPU power to
keep up.

> ... 100-MHz system Pentium ...
> ... It looks like these Linksys routers are at least as fast: ...

  That's not really apples-to-apples; all the LinkSys routers are MIPS
architecture, and tuned for low-power and low-cost.  Clock rate alone
doesn't tell the whole story.

  All the above said, if you could get acceptable performance out of a
100 MHz Pentium, that's promising.  :)

> And they have to have enough computing-power to run WPA, right?

  Wireless crypto may be implemented in dedicated hardware in the
wireless chipset, not on the general-purpose processor (where Linux
and OpenVPN run), so that may not mean anything.

-- Ben