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Is it really enough for a router? Does it have any hw acceleration for cryptography or network routing?
I have a pretty modern AP and sufficient managed switch that never crashed in 8 years, but my router is the bottleneck WITHOUT any analytics, logging or more involved security features.
Yup, Cortex A7 has some crypto HW acceleration with Neon extensions
https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A7
But routers typically won't decrypt any traffic, they just route it. Bus, RAM and cache speed is more of a bottleneck.
Yeah I'm thinking more in terms of UTM. It's been a project of mine to have an enterprise-like network while using prosumer or SMB hardware. Always looking for efficient upgrades.
Only if it had 128MB of RAM.