Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:

> I've been working on the Hifn crypto driver recently and have noticed
> something startling: in a kernel with pseudo-device crypto and options
> FAST_IPSEC, after the system has been running for a short while, all
> crypto requests fail.
>
> This causes ssh to not work (since openssl uses /dev/crypto if present)
> and it causes IPsec to not work, since encryption of every packet fails.

I also had it fail to work with FAST_IPSEC, with 2.0; software crypto
proved fast enough (on a net4801, no less), so I gave up on it for the
time being.  I haven't had any problems with sshd, however, and the
device is there:

hifn0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: Hifn 7955, rev. 0
hifn0: 3DES/AES, 32KB dram, interrupting at irq 11

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