In my completely unscientific tests just now before heading off to bed, The 4.9 kernel without hifn in it, apache-ssl is clearly using main cpu under artificial heavy load. Put back in hifn, same test, cpu is hovering at 90% idle, and apache-ssl is cranking away. This is with the Soekris 14xx card, reported as: hifn0: Hifn 7955, rev 0, 32KB dram, 64 sessions I know the 7955 is the latest chipset and supports more than the older 7951 cards. : : I can second/confirm Mike's observations here. : : I've got a pair of HI/FN 7951 cards which gets used by SSH if I select : 3DES, but there is no sign that Apache attempts to use it for either : the public-key RSA/DSA crypto during HTTPS session startup, nor later : for the symmetric crypto. : : -- : -Chuck : : _______________________________________________ -- Andrew _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"