> Even though the card is detected, I'm not seeing any boost in > IPsec performance.
> Cpu is a Geode1100 - doing 10Mb/s IPsec has it maxed out :) The cpu is unable to feed the crypto card fast enough. You would think that doing crypto operations, especially 3DES is a lot of work. And it is. But there is a nearly fixed overhead for in the driver for managing the card. And it is a high overhead. I wish people would STOP USING WIMPY PROCESSORS AND EXPECTING THEM TO DO MAGIC.