On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Kamran Malik <kamranma...@cloudflow.net> wrote: > hi > > I have a rather simple question related to SSL acceleration. I have gone > through some of the email archives but haven't been able to figure this out. > > On a server where among other things I am running the HAProxy application I > want to be able to provide an accelerator card (say like a NITROX III > security accelerator) to accelerate the SSL termination for Client > connections. The question I have is that is this possible in HAProxy to use > an accelerator? > > I know that natively if the server running HAProxy has the AVX2 instruction > set then a certain amount of acceleration is achieved. My issue is can I use > a separate accelerator card in the server and can HAProxy use that? > > Thanks in advance > > Regards, > Kamran Malik > > PS just started using HAProxy and love it! Thanks!
Hi Kamran, Actually, it does not depends only on HAProxy, but also on your openssl library. If the library is able to take advantage of such device, then haproxy will perform better. Baptiste
