On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:10:30PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Andre Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been turning a Soekris Net 4801 box into a wireless access point. >> I saw that one can get a crypto-accelerator card from Soekris >> Engineering that plugs into the free PCI slot on the 4801. >> >> One quick (silly) question. >> Under OpenBSD 4.2 would such a card improve WEP performance, or is that >> handled entirely by the wireless ath0 (mini-pci) card? >> >> It makes sense that a crypto-accelerator would help if the Soekris were >> a VPN endpoint, but for WEP I think it probably is entirely useless, >> right? > > For WEP it's pretty much useless. Wrong kind of crypto. >
Many wireless chipsets do WEP in HW on the chip (AFAIK ath(4) is one of those). > The only thing that would help a soekris is a real CPU :) > That's still true. -- :wq Claudio
