It doesn’t have to have a big cpu or anything crazy but something small where you could deploy them cheaply in the field as a portable router or vpn device for end users.
I was thinking the exact same thing, something to allow hackers to drop in between network interfaces.
Say you wanted to add a mikrotik router to something… say a cisco HWIC-1FE… you could unsolder the pads from the magjack connect to microboard resolder other end. this would bring life to all the 1841’s or other wics that have adsl and isdn cards to make an intergated soltuion.