Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:01:40 +1000 From: Enno Davids <enno@doc.metva.com.au> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Crypto support (RSA acceleration) Message-ID: <20030415190140.GB97289@doc.metva.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030415184047.GB11967@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <F404DDD8-6F31-11D7-AD2F-00039357FA7A@tunix.nl> <20030415184047.GB11967@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:40:47AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: |On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:03:56PM +0200, Rene de Vries wrote: |> Hello, |> |> For an SSL based application we are using the Rainbow CryptoSwift (a |> PCI card with RSA acceleration). This works fine on FreeBSD 4.1, but as |> we upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7 the driver panics the kernel. |> We asked Rainbow for a driver update, but they told us that FreeBSD 4.7 |> drivers are not available. Rainbow used to mention FreeBSD as a |> supported OS, but in the meantime they removed all references to |> FreeBSD... |> Does anyone have an idea on either a replacement card or (even better) |> fixes for the Rainbow drivers? | |It depends on what performance the Rainbow hardware has. |Soekris Engineering (http://www.soekris.com/) has a hifn |card that might work on the low end. If you need more |performance, there are broadcom based cards from Interface Master |(http://www.interfacemasters.com/products/index.html) and apparently |also from Sun. These cost around $1k. The older card from Sun _is_ the cryptoswift, although they occasionally seem reluctant to say so. Not sure who they source their more recent crypto card from. Enno.home | help
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