[Soekris] Elan performance for ipsec without hifn chip

[bars@code.qc.ca]

Hi,

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I've read some of the archives and
haven't found an answer.

Does the Elan has enough power to drive say 4-5 ipsec tunnels under frees/wan?
Max bandwidth would be 2mbps.

Do I absolutely need a hifn adapter? Has anybody successfully integrated the new
hifn support code with frees/wan?

( I know that openbsd has great support for the hifn adapters, but I am more
familiar with linux, freeswan, iptables, qos et al than with openbsd. I wish I
had more time to learn...)

I was also considering one of those fanless via eden mini-itx boards, but I
thought they were a bit of an overkill, unless you need a printer port,
naturally ;-)

Thanks

Philippe