Hello, I'am new at this mailing list. I hope you understand what I write here, because my english language is not so good (I'am from Germany in Europe :-)).
I have since 3 weeks a net5501-70 on which I install over PXE an original Debian (Lenny/sid) over the netinstall option. (I install first "etch" and then I make a dist-upgrade to "lenny/sid".) I experiment also with voyage linux, but the problem is that vl-0.52 (etch) works well when I make a nfs-mount to my server. But with the lenny-version of voyage-linux I can not make a nfs-mount. So I install the original Debian. It works very well. I experiment with encrypted partitions (cryptsetup, luks: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, keylength 256 bit) with or without the geode-AES engine. The result of my tests ist that when I NOT load the "geode-aes" module (then the module "aes-i586" is used) the encryption/decryption is a little bit faster than with the geode-aes module (measured with "time cat 700MB-file >/dev/null" or "time dd if=/dev/zero of=xxx.img bs=1024 count=700000" and I reboot the system bevor every test ;-) ). So I think if it is a good idea to buy one of the two boards vpn1401 or vpn1411. Who uses one of the two boards (vpn1401 or vpn1411)? What are your experience? The HIFN 7955 security acceleration chip on the boards is supported by the linux kernel 2.6.26 (Debian: Lenny/sid, module "hifn_795x"). It seems it is fully supported in this Linux kernel. Is it a good idea to buy one of the ecryption/decryption boards, or is the speed less like with the geode-aes engine? Regards Andreas -- Andreas G., University of Ulm, Germany open source project --> http://yaze-ag.de/ (Yet Another Z80 Emulator) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
