Subject: Re: Adding opencrypto, crypto acceelerator to GENERIC kernels?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/19/2003 06:26:32
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Soekris makes an inexpensive one based on Hifn:

http://www.soekris.com/

products->vpn1201

I'm using the on several OpenBSD boxes; I have not tried with opencrypto an=
d=20
NetBSD yet.

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 06:15 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:07:23PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> > I added stanzas for opencrypto and hardware crypto accelerators to the
> > i386 GENERIC config. (Besides the PCI devices we have, FreeBSD
> > supports one more PCI device, and I know of at least one pc-card
> > accelerator with open-source drivers.)
>
> Could you recommend PCI devices for the clueless geeks like me? And
> which is that pc-card device you mentioned?
>
> I don't realy need accelerated crypto, but I'm curious how it works
> on sparc64 (if it works there, it'll probably work everywhere).
>
> And I'd like to see a sparc station 2 (sparc v7 w/o hardware
> multiply/division) use a pc-card crypto accelerator. Assuming there are
> no sbus crypto accelerator card available.
>
> Martin

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John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com
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