Re: Cavium crypto card
> Some crypto cards are based on a supported chip, but are simply > re-branded. I took a brief look at the Cavium and it looks like they > have their own chips. We don't have support for those. They also state > they have drivers for FreeBSD. Perhaps you can talk them into making > an BSD-licensed OpenBSD driver or donating specs/cards to the project > and someone might offer to write a driver. Normally when a vendor says they have a driver for some operating system, it means We have a driver binary that we load into the kernel, or one that runs in userland that talks to the card via /dev/pci or /dev/mem, and then OpenSSL's engine handles this via a dynamically loading a binary .so library we supply. Not exactly what most of you want running.
Re: Cavium crypto card
> Has anybody a 'High performance IPSec and SSL accelerator PCI card with Cavium > CN1010' running on OpenBSD? > > I am looking for a crypto card and it could be an option but it isn't in the > hardware supported list in http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware Some crypto cards are based on a supported chip, but are simply re-branded. I took a brief look at the Cavium and it looks like they have their own chips. We don't have support for those. They also state they have drivers for FreeBSD. Perhaps you can talk them into making an BSD-licensed OpenBSD driver or donating specs/cards to the project and someone might offer to write a driver. There is some (slow) work going on to support newer chips from Safenet. I guess you can call them "high-performance", since they claim that the new chips can do >1gbps symmetric crypto ops. The problem with crypto cards is moving data in and out from the kernel. But, that's another story.
Cavium crypto card
Hi all, Has anybody a 'High performance IPSec and SSL accelerator PCI card with Cavium CN1010' running on OpenBSD? I am looking for a crypto card and it could be an option but it isn't in the hardware supported list in http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware Thanks! -- Abel Talaversn Estevez Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicaciones Analista de Proyectos OpenWired Caballero 87 - Bajos 08029 - Barcelona Tel. 93 495 0990 Fax. 93 419 4591 Openwired Alejandro Villegas,29 28043 - MADRID - ESPAQA Telifono: 91 300 51 09 Fax: 91 300 28 13 http://www.openwired.com
