Michael, Cisco has extension boards available to offload encryption on too, but last price I saw I could build 200 of these home made routers that can do the work as well.

Since Seti is a project running on fumes and the money comming in is needed in the science first, I would feel it my duty as an ITer to do whatever I could to create and support these kinds of cheap solutions.

And if its your responsible for admining the network, believe me, its alot of fun and even more fullfilling and rewarding to get something like this running well, then getting a 200K a month job.

So, are you saying that instead of replacing a router, we just add a daughter board to get better throughput? Let's get the exact model/part number for the card and put it on the hardware donation list!

They can buy several 100% Gigabit capable Cisco routers for the price of this one board, its not ment for single connection solutions, but enterprise and ISP levels.