Re: crypto accelerators

2006-05-03 Thread Michael DeMan
Hi, No on the SSH. Look at the specs, I think the 1401 cards will be helpful only on older IPSec circuits. I am not 100% sure here, I haven't looked at any of this in a few years, this is just from recollection. Michael F. DeMan Director of Technology OpenAccess Network Services Bellingh

Re: crypto accelerators

2006-05-03 Thread Michael DeMan
hi, Just jumping in here. The Soekris 1401 offers only limited performance enhancements. If you read the specs, it is only useful (and used?) for certain encryption algorithms. Its also deprecated and would imagine that Soren regrets even releasing it in the first place. None the les

Re: crypto accelerators

2006-04-18 Thread Sam Leffler
Mike Tancsa wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:44:38 -1000 (HST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: I've read here before (or maybe some other freebsd list) that cards like the Soekris 1401 don't gain as much as you'd expect due to moving packets to/from the card over the PCI bus. But the cont

Re: crypto accelerators

2006-04-18 Thread Dave Cornejo
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:44:38PM -1000, Dave Cornejo wrote: > > So the question is whether these cards, regardless of their affect on > > throughput, increase usable CPU cycles? I have several Soekris 1401 > > cards and am wondering if there would be any point to putting them > > into some mac

Re: crypto accelerators

2006-04-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:44:38 -1000 (HST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >I've read here before (or maybe some other freebsd list) that cards >like the Soekris 1401 don't gain as much as you'd expect due to moving >packets to/from the card over the PCI bus. But the context is usually >one

Re: crypto accelerators

2006-04-18 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:44:38PM -1000, Dave Cornejo wrote: > So the question is whether these cards, regardless of their affect on > throughput, increase usable CPU cycles? I have several Soekris 1401 > cards and am wondering if there would be any point to putting them > into some machines that