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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:44:52 +0100
From:      Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ubsec(4) and AES
Message-ID:  <20080115174452.GA70243@harmless.hu>
In-Reply-To: <478CEF78.3020808@errno.com>
References:  <20080115093913.GA72710@harmless.hu> <478CEF78.3020808@errno.com>

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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:38:00AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> >Good morning,
> >
> >I'd like to ask whether there was any updates, news, anything
> >about the Broadcom cryptoaccelerators' AES support in the recent
> >past. ubsec(4)[1] tells at the BUGS section, that it's awaiting
> >some information from broadcom. It would be nice to have AES
> >support for these cards, since the hifn(4) ones don't provide
> >as much performance as the broadcom ones, according to the
> >utilities in the source tree, google, and the vendors themselves.
> >
> >[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dubsec
> > =20
>=20
> Broadcom never gave me the ok to add the AES support; will ask again.
>=20
> As to performance I believe hifn 7956 parts were on a par w/ the 5823 but=
 it's been a long time.  The main issue isn't the speed of the=20
> crypto part but the bus+dma glue.
And also stability. I've experience system crashing with the soekris vpn140=
1. It was
kinda strange. Existing things worked (like an opened ssh connect, the box =
is a gateway),
but I couldn't even fork() new processes, use apache, open new ssh connecti=
ons to the
box, anything. And the interrupt load was also a bit too high. Anyways, it'=
s a different
issue.

Silicom has drivers for both windows and linux, and they support AES. I was=
n't able to
download the driver (got an empty page), so I don't know whether its openso=
urce or not.

Sincerely,

Gergely Czuczy
mailto: gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu

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Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise.

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