Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:50:28 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S Message-ID: <20020301105028.E5099@spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20020301104035.D5099@spc.org>; from bms@spc.org on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:40:35AM %2B0000 References: <20020301094714.B5099@spc.org> <20020301094714.B5099@spc.org> <20020301095844.GK77980@elvis.mu.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20020301043209.0358c418@mail.Go2France.com> <20020301104035.D5099@spc.org>
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Pardon my lack of caffiene; I have a pint mug of tea on my desk now.
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:40:35AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> >
> > Is there ANY hardware encryption support in FreeBSD?
>
> Things are gradually being rearranged to facilitate this, as part of SMPng.
> At the moment the IP stack runs solely as a software interrupt. Since 4.4,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That should be 'solely within a software interrupt context, splnet()'.
It's also going to require some reworking of the imported KAME tree.
BMS
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