Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:47:36 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: Siquijor Philips <siquijorphilips@gmail.com>, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel 82576 ipsec offload? Message-ID: <4ACF8548.8090309@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0910091117q6cfab252sa8d5dfcf0182b660@mail.gmail.com> References: <a27b90e40910072224q2a79cbd9k2f789cb6d1513157@mail.gmail.com> <20091008174521.GE3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <a27b90e40910082114q6e4faa7ai3553e37d449ae2db@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0910091117q6cfab252sa8d5dfcf0182b660@mail.gmail.com>
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Jack Vogel wrote: > I am Jack, the network engineer at Intel responsible for all FreeBSD wired > lan drivers. > This is the first I've seen about this. Our understanding was that the > infrastructure needed > to do IPSec was not available for either Linux or FreeBSD, can you please > explain things? > > If everything is there except the support in the driver then I might be able > to add that to > my queue. > If we knew what the driver would need then that might help too :-) (ha gotcha) :-) > Cheers, > > Jack > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Siquijor Philips > <siquijorphilips@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Siquijor Philips wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I got a dual-port Intel Gigabit NIC with 82576 (ET) chipset >>>> http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/320116.pdf. It has a feature >>>> on IPsec offloading but it only mentioned Microsoft Windows 2008 and >>>> Vista servers. I wonder if FreeBSD have also support on this feature? >>>> >>> AFAIK it's not yet, not sure whether Jack has plan to implement the >>> offloading. I know old Intel i82550 also supported IPSec offloading >>> but Intel didn't release required information to implement it. 3Com >>> also supported IPSec offloading in their 3XP hardwares(txp(4)) but >>> the offloading was not implemented. >>> >> Hi Pyun, >> >> Thanks for your info! By the way, who is Jack? Is he the author of >> this driver? I really need to have this feature usable on the driver. >> I bought these NICs with 82576 chipset for the purpose of implementing >> IPsec in my network and my current FreeBSD servers could benefit it. >> Just really thought it has support because FreeBSD was already part of >> the supported operating system. I was alerted when I've re-read the >> product info document again that it only support Windows 2008 and >> Vista platforms. Now, I've confirmed that with the current existing >> driver. I hope this guy has the plan of implementing it sooner because >> I really need it. >> >> Thanks, >> Siquijor >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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