Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:13:34 -0700 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, Siquijor Philips <siquijorphilips@gmail.com>, sam@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel 82576 ipsec offload? Message-ID: <2a41acea0910091213p3d8ccbbq7c29b407ec0b4c79@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ACF8907.9000905@elischer.org> References: <a27b90e40910072224q2a79cbd9k2f789cb6d1513157@mail.gmail.com> <20091008174521.GE3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <a27b90e40910082114q6e4faa7ai3553e37d449ae2db@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0910091117q6cfab252sa8d5dfcf0182b660@mail.gmail.com> <20091009184831.GH3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <4ACF8907.9000905@elischer.org>
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I am out sick today, but I will see what I can find out early next week. Jack On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>wrote: > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:17:00AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >>> I am Jack, the network engineer at Intel responsible for all FreeBSD >>> wired >>> lan drivers. >>> This is the first I've seen about this. Our understanding was that the >>> infrastructure needed >>> to do IPSec was not available for either Linux or FreeBSD, can you please >>> explain things? >>> >>> >> I guess we already have crypto(9) infrastructure to support IPSec >> in kernel. CCed to sam who may know what is required to implement >> IPSec offloading in ethernet driver. >> >> > I guess what is required is dependent on whether it's just crypto > support, or whether the card is expected to track all the security > associations, or whether it expects to track just a subset of them. > > I'm guessing that the latter may be the case. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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