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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Rumen Telbizov wrote:

> Thank for the reply Mike.
> 
> I took a look at those cards (vpn1201 and vpn1211).  They don't seem to
> have AES support and only support 2-8 RSA connections/sec. Rainbow say
> that their cards support 1000 RSA connections/sec which is quite
> astonishing.  The vpn1401 and vpn1411 seem to have better performance
> but as you said the hifn(4) driver support is broken for those :(

Poul-Henning recently sent me some performance numbers from his initial
work to hook GEOM up to the AES support in the crypto framework using the
VPN1401/1411.  He didn't seem to report any brokenness in the driver in
-CURRENT.  The support may not yet have been MFC'd to -STABLE yet,
however.  I've CC'd Sam since his fingerprints are all over the code in
question.  :-)

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research