crazy ideas for future releases once this is there, it should be reasonable to offload the fast path to specialized hardware like, two GE or 10GE interfaces, a FPGA or network processor or similar and some RAM on a PCIe card ruleset evaluation, route lookup etc go to the Host CPU, established connections are handled on the card in loose contact with a vendor GE at wire speed is very realistic 10GE at wire speed? We don't know, but it doesn't seem to be completely impossible