From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 2 7:38: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E400D37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8E0843E3B for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 13017 invoked by uid 1031); 2 Oct 2002 14:33:45 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:33:44 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 S Message-ID: <20021002143344.GB27978@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom , freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <200210011633.g91GXDp24050@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210011633.g91GXDp24050@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:33:13PM +0200, Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom wrote: > As far as I can tell from a bit of Google > research, it features hardware encryprtion/decryption. Check the BGA ASIC. If it's an 82550EY or 82550GY, it should be crypto capable. The 82559ED may also be crypto capable. There's many steppings of the chip in the D100 family... > - Can I use it under FreeBSD? Yes, as a regular fxp. > - Can I make use of that hardware acceleration? Not yet. It relies on as-yet undocumented hardware registers and TCB formats which Intel will not release documentation for without signing an NDA. > - What is the 3 wire cable for? Wake on LAN. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message