Hello, 14/12/2013 18:49, Vivek Soni: > I am looking at the options available to support IPSec functionality in my > DPDK based application. > I found from the data sheet that Intel 82599 NIC supports IPSec offload. > Is it possible for a dpdk application to utilize hardware ipsec offload > function present in the NIC ?
No, IPsec offloading with 82599 is not supported. As far as I know, IPsec stacks on DPDK are using either Cave Creek, Nitrox or pure software (AVX/AES-NI) but not 82599's engines. -- Thomas
