Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:10:02 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: andy@lewman.com, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20040414230754.07d7cf18@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <20040415030319.GA71038@phobos.osem.com> References: <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <26486.1081437513@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040413181943.GA55219@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20040415030319.GA71038@phobos.osem.com>
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Someone with the time, knowledge and perhaps funding to fix it. It would be
nice too if someone with a Soekris 1401 or 7556 based card on FreeBSD or
OpenBSD could duplicate my results just to confirm its not a bad batch of 3
cards that I have
---Mike
At 11:03 PM 14/04/2004, andy@lewman.com wrote:
>Ok, so what exactly needs to be done to get full hifn support working in
>4.x/5.x?
>
>I seem to have lost the original train of thought here.
>
>-Andrew
>
>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:19:43PM -0400, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
>wrote 1.5K bytes in 37 lines about:
>: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:18:33PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>: > 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.
>:
>: OK, for the record I asked sam@. He says that the VPN1401 has issues
>: for (at a minimum) symmetric crypto ops, but he hasn't had time to
>: investigate and doesn't own a 1401, so...
>:
>: He also says that he considers the Broadcom 582x is the best
>: accelerator available, except that it isn't available retail. :-(
>:
>: So, it looks like my choices are rapidly narrowing. It seems that the
>: powercrypt cards are well-supported, perhaps I'll give them a call.
>:
>: ==ml
>:
>: --
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>: "I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of
>: your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti
>: http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
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