> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Gonyou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 January 2001 16:26
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Rainbow Cryptoswift cards - information
>
>
> If you were to get 3x on a single proc 1ghz, you'd get 5x>
> with smp and
> threading. If you ran a large webfarm with really good loadballancing,
> you'd NEVER need to have ssl accelerators. Also, you have a hard limit
> with your ssl accelerators, that limit just happens to be WAY
> lower than
> what apache 2.0 will be able to handle with ssl and at that
> speed. Keep in
> mind. You could buy a server for the amount that they're talking. VA
> Linux and Dell both sell pretty darn cheap 1u's.
>
> --
> Austin
>
I don't want to prolong this discussion longer than necessary, however "a
large webfarm with really good loadbalancing" indicates you are running
several servers and a load balancer. If we are looking at an individual
server (which of course we must be if we are talking about a PCI card) then
my comments still stand, that the crypto card is working many times faster
than the processor can at present. However, real on-chip support for SSL
encryption would be quicker still, but we don't have that. IMHO the card is
better value for money than extra servers etc.
However, it wouldn't be so much of an issue if IE didn't exist!
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Happy new Millennium - http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/mill/index.htm
John Airey
Internet Systems Support Officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute for the
Blind,
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