From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 18:17:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A9D106568B for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:17:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f197.google.com (mail-yw0-f197.google.com [209.85.211.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878858FC1C for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh35 with SMTP id 35so19824796ywh.7 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:17:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=a4ck6qdlwt8aGERWP5oBbFFGf5MbYprBPZf5FlZi5yU=; b=j9YjA5tdqWNaSrT6QhMbepvJyHK+7f1dllRK2BUj2kdyBj2bMgwRFml6h5ZFU/4CnC 1Agi2W1SKcW7T0+OetUnDFCQKLIYyWDMdHSY9DlvPSvC2Irdk6h4s1pABxH8iTH9qKiF RVITgDCWIF3hAvoMnqlk2Xx2z0YeDdei6iLqw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=rPcRKfmG8YE2Ia/mwht0pakl+ugBxlVY8mdLOD8dZYidRwzZMlSRw/YNQOEpUZMjLU KPWtITQiN9TpuLaPs87VdeVvf2dm2cCWTl3RCys5gRMwb88KSrZg7WChQkzB6zBIrRGR TYh+22sh/MRX7SK0b9c6sZmtAmTAG6KVb7vxc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.64.16 with SMTP id r16mr3401661ank.195.1255112220558; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:17:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20091008174521.GE3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:17:00 -0700 Message-ID: <2a41acea0910091117q6cfab252sa8d5dfcf0182b660@mail.gmail.com> From: Jack Vogel To: Siquijor Philips Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel 82576 ipsec offload? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:17:02 -0000 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. Cheers, Jack On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Siquijor Philips wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Pyun YongHyeon 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" >