In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa writes: >On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:21:34 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions >you wrote: > >>After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any >>current information on the status of hardware cryptographic >>accelerators (like the Soekris vpn1401) and gbde. Can gbde harness the >>power of one of these accelerator cards yet? If so do they provide >>significant offloading from the processor(s)? Any comments on the >>Soekris vpn1401 card I've been thinking about? Thanks in advance. > >Hi, > It wont work. I know the authorth was thinking about adding >VIA C3/Padlock support, but not sure the details.
There is partial support for opencrypto/hifn/vpn1401 in the p4 branch phk_gbde, but it doesn't help very much because of the high setup overhead of the hifn chip. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
