Probably the thing the most people are looking for is driver support
for 802.11g cards.

Good summary of networking enhancements posted here a couple days ago.
 http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf

Especially of note is it'll route 1 Mpps, while Linux can barely do
100 Kpps.  :)


> Speaking of SMP systems, will m0n0wall take advantage of a SMP system?
> 

Not in the release builds (no kernel SMP support).
http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-smp.html


> Is it worth using an SMP box, or should I try to pick up another non-SMP
> box?
> 

Depends on what you're using it for.  If you're using features other
than the typical NAT/firewall, it'd be beneficial to run SMP.  Unless
you have a fat internet pipe, you probably aren't going to notice any
speed improvements from a 200 MHz to anything else.

-Chris