>It wouldn't have to go very fast at all. Just provide telnet services, >finger, that sort of thing. >How could this be implemented? > >>It would work...at 5k a second it might miss some packets. I didn't say it would be slow. I said it would miss packets. if they were 1 4k packet a second, the calc would take ~.80 seconds a packet. There isn't too much of a buffer in ethernet chips.