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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:43:22 -0400
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator
Message-ID:  <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <26215.1081434517@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <6.0.3.0.0.20040408102521.0948ea58@209.112.4.2> <26215.1081434517@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >>Look at VPN14x1 from www.soekris.com, it's darn cheap too.

Thanks, phk!

For $79, it's cheap enough that I could put a whole stack of them in a
machine.  Can FreeBSD take advantage of multiple cards like that?

(Yes, that's a serious concern; I'm looking at 15,000 simultaneous
users on a SSL Web site, and would prefer to avoid spending the big
bucks on a so-called "hardware SSL accelerator.")

==ml

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