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There's was a company who tried this kind of thing: Selling a wireless card which embedded a linux powered firewall: http://www.yoggie.com/New_Yoggie/Welcome.h

There's was a company who tried this kind of thing: Selling a wireless card which embedded a linux powered firewall: http://www.yoggie.com/New_Yoggie/Welcome.html http://www.yoggie.com/New_Yoggie/Welcome.html http://www.yoggie-gatekeeper.co.uk/ http://www.yoggie-gatekeeper.co.uk/ I don't know but it seems they failed a funding round.

zdw 16y ago
The "Killer Nic" is semi-sucessful in the gaming arena: http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-nic-m1/ http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/killer-nic-m1/ It basically is linux on a NIC card that does packet reordering for lower latency, with varying degrees of success depending the situation. They're also moving into wireless: http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/bigfoot-networks-killer-wireless-n-adaptors-deliver-breakthrough-wi-fi-performance-for-notebooks/ http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/bigfoot-networks-killer-wirel...