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Would a crypto-accelerators help WEP on Soekris?

From: Andre Pierre (apierreMIT.EDU)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2008 - 19:25:05 CST

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?

Just idle curiosity.

Thanks

Dre