Is it true that you can mine with routers?

[strunberg]

I'm wondering if it's true that you can mine with a router. If so how well do they preform?

[Dare]

I believe you can with specific routers and special firmware, although I don't know the details. I doubt they would reach more then a few Mhash unless they're extremely powerful enterprise-grade routers though.

[Gabi]

The only thing i know is that with some ASIC you can mine with them and connecting them directly to internet via the router, without using a computer. But the ASIC mine, not the router.

[Stephen Gornick]

I'm wondering if it's true that you can mine with a router. If so how well do they preform?

If you were hoping to do CPU mining from a router, you are about 30 months too late.

Now using one to control an ASIC, yes.  Here's a related thread:

Avalon ASIC batch 2, OpenWRT, VirtualBox, IPv6-Hurricane Electric Tunnel
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146646.0