Take look at this paper by Mark Cox (one of the primary Apache developers): High Scalability for SSL and Apache

http://www.awe.com/mark/ora2000/

He looked at several accelerators and wasn't too impressed with what you actually get for your money.

Jeff

At 10:31 AM 9/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
I'm thinking about getting an SSL Accelerator.  Intel has one that
intercepts packets in-between your web server(s) and net connection.  Then
it does the encryption/decryption required and passes the traffic along to
the web server(s).
It's called the NetStructure(TM) 7110 e-Commerce Accelerator and the
NetStructure(TM) 7180 e-Commerce Director.  I've included an HTML for ref.
Has anyone had any experience with these or other accelerators?
Intel says that 90% of cpu util can be SSL (sounds fishy to me).

I would just be interested in any comments you might have.  Thanks,

Dan Browning
Network & Database Administrator
Cyclone Computer Systems

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