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		pixdamix on March 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A complete Internet web server built into an Ether... 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-gatekeeper.co.uk/ I don't know but it seems they failed a funding round.

zdw on March 15, 2011 [–]

The "Killer Nic" is semi-sucessful in the gaming arena:

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-wirel...

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