Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:40:23 EDT From: Bsdguru@aol.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <14.1679c7fc.2873a3d7@aol.com>
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In a message dated 07/03/2001 12:58:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net writes: > > > Imagine a complete 80186 system with 512k RAM and 512K flash disk, two > > > serial ports, 14 digital IO lines and an Ethernet in a 32 pin DIL > package. > > > They are planning to replace the 80186 module by a 80386 in a few weeks. > > > > If you can't belive it you might take a look at www.bcl.de. Now if it > only > > > had enough flash for a PicoBSD it might make a good pocket ISDN router.. > . > > > > > > > We can "picture" it, but such a system can't route a full 100mb/s ethernet, > > > so its fairly useless as a network device/router as is proposed here. > > And where, pray tell, am I going to find a 100/mbit ISDN link? I'd sure > like one, the 144k IDSL stuff is really slow. > We "were" talking about the merits of using external encryption hardware on a 486 based platform VS a faster platform. You, it seems, are talking about the merits of slow embedded hardware, which has nothing to do with the discussion at hand. B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messagehelp
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