Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:58:33 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator Message-ID: <20040408185832.GS89845@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <6.0.3.0.0.20040408102521.0948ea58@209.112.4.2> <26215.1081434517@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:43:22AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > 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 > > -- > Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org > A cheap solution would also be to buy used Alteon iSD-100, they go for like $100-300 on ebay. Each can handle 7,000 connections and you can put together a cluster of 32 of them. I personal do like them although they are based on LinSux. Haven't tried to get FreeBSD on them (its an industrial cpu board with a 64MB compact flash). -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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