Wired, rackmount, gigabit router

This is a bit ambiguous, as having 1000BASE-T ports does not necessarily imply being able to route up to full wirespeed - and AR9344, as in the RB2011, cannot - not at all (~150 MBit/s max).

No.

You have basically given yourself the answer here already, x86_64 is an options - especially if you want to achieve 1 GBit/s line speed (and other high performance features, e.g. SQM, VPN).

Devices like these (the later ones in that thread, not the AMD jaguar based ones) might come in handy.

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