From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 3 15:40:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4704837B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id n.14.1679c7fc (25307) for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:40:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: <14.1679c7fc.2873a3d7@aol.com> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:40:23 EDT Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD To: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 message