On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:18:33PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, "Michae > l W. Lucas" writes: > >On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >>Look at VPN14x1 from www.soekris.com, it's darn cheap too. > > > >Thanks, phk! > > > >For $79, it's cheap enough that I could put a whole stack of them in a > >machine. Can FreeBSD take advantage of multiple cards like that? > > I think so, but I am not sure the code currently does load-sharing > or just "try to find a card which can do this job" sharing. > > Maybe sam@ would know, you should probably ask him. OK, for the record I asked sam@. He says that the VPN1401 has issues for (at a minimum) symmetric crypto ops, but he hasn't had time to investigate and doesn't own a 1401, so... He also says that he considers the Broadcom 582x is the best accelerator available, except that it isn't available retail. :-( So, it looks like my choices are rapidly narrowing. It seems that the powercrypt cards are well-supported, perhaps I'll give them a call. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [email protected], [email protected] "I'm sorry, but 'Social Darwinism' is no excuse for killing all of your co-workers." -- Ivan Brunetti http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"