Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:18:33 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator Message-ID: <26486.1081437513@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:43:22 EDT." <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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In message <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>, "Michae l W. Lucas" writes: >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? I think so, but I am not sure the code currently does load-sharing or just "try to find a card which can do this job" sharing. Maybe sam@ would know, you should probably ask him. >(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.") Whee :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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