I think accelerator cards need to provide both checksumming (md5 or sha1) and crypto in HW before its actually any use. Otherwise you will spend most of your time copying data around.
2012/1/22 Stefan Johansson <steve.johans...@telia.com>: > Hello! > > Does anyone on the list have experience with a hifn(4) card (such as the > Soekris vpn1411) > in a Routerboard RB600? > I'm using it for an ipsec tunnel (isakmpd between RB600 and an other OpenBSD > i386 box) > and would like to know if it will give me any performance increase before I > purchase one? > > Today I get about 12 Mb/s through the tunnel and 60-70 Mb/s "outside". > I am measuring this with iperf on OpenBSD 5.0 and the RB600 CPU is set to > 533MHz. > > /Stefan > -- To our sweethearts and wives. May they never meet. -- 19th century toast
