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Virtually all SOHO routers do routing on CPU.
by garaetjjte 3y ago
Virtually all SOHO routers do routing on CPU.
- nwallin 3y agoIf you're going to do SOHO routing safely/correctly, you'll need to do some sort of connection tracking. You'll need to allow packets on new and existing outbound connections, but only allow incoming packets on existing connections. SOHO routers generally won't support this in hardware, so you have to route on the CPU anyway. NAT on IPv4 vs stateful routing on IPv6 is a wash in terms of performance.