User: mlyle

Re:Hmmm. Interesting reutilization.

On: 3Com to Sell Firewall-in-a-NIC

These cards are actually based on Broadcom's 5703 MAC, aka "Tigon III". The Tigon chipset is really rather cool, in that it includes dual MIPS cores running at high speed. This enables all of their "value-added" features, like encryption assist, firewalling, and TCP segmentation acceleration.

If you can write MIPS assembly, you can run anything that you can fit into 64k on this card.