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HW acceleration won't matter at residential network speeds. It's mostly useful for edge/core routers handling traffic in excess of million PPS.


When you communicate over the Internet, your traffic will typically pass through some backbone routers.


A lot of home gateways have really feeble cpus and rely on HW acceleration to process packets.


Software on feeble CPUs does OK up to 100Mbps or so, and I doubt he's complaining about problems at that speed.

(I have a 5+-year-old Geode-based router at home, and it can do full pf rule evaluation and forwarding at about 300Mbps.)




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