[Soekris] VPN1201 - free for OS developer

Tue Nov 25 13:58:55 UTC 2003

  My first thought was shared interupt on the Deskpro, but it just works 
with OBSD. The other machine I tried it in had spare interupts ... I 
always trim that stuff down if it isn't being used just to avoid stuff 
like this.

   Maybe I will try again before I ship the card out to someone else ...

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> I too have a number of these cards and all except 1 work great and offer 
> a noticeable improvement in speed and reduction in CPU on FreeBSD 4.8 
> and up. Perhaps the unit you got is defective ? The unit that I am 
> having problems is on a shared interrupt. Perhaps the card has problems 
> with that or is just bad?
> 
> % grep "irq 10" /var/run/dmesg.boot
> agp0: <Intel 82845G (845G GMCH) SVGA controller> mem 
> 0xea400000-0xea47ffff,0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff irq 10 at device 2.0 on pci0
> uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xd800-0xd81f 
> irq 10 at device 29.0 on pci0
> hifn0 mem 0xe9802000-0xe9802fff,0xe9801000-0xe9801fff irq 10 at device 
> 0.0 on pci1
> % vmstat -i
> interrupt                   total       rate
> mux irq10                     113          0
> fxp0 irq11              112059512        106
> mux irq15                 1531652          1
> sio0 irq4                     206          0
> clk irq0                105145661         99
> rtc irq8                134586332        127
> Total                   353323476        336
> 
> I have transferred several gig over ssh using 3des, yet it doesnt seem 
> to be using the hifn
> 
> % sysctl -xA hw.hifn
> hw.hifn.stats: Format:S,hifn_stats Length:76 
> Dump:0x08080700000000000808070000000000710000007100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 
> 
> hw.hifn.maxbatch: 1
> 
> 
> The other end which sends to the above server
> backup2% sysctl -Ax hw.hifn
> hw.hifn.stats: Format:S,hifn_stats Length:76 
> Dump:0x50e2f964f400000050e2f964f40000003437900b3437900b00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 
> 
> hw.hifn.maxbatch: 1
> backup2%
> 
> looks appropriately busy in comparison.... But it too is on a shared 
> interrupt
> 
> backup2% grep "irq 12" /var/run/dmesg.boot
> hifn0 mem 0xfa000000-0xfa000fff,0xfa800000-0xfa800fff irq 12 at device 
> 15.0 on pci0
> dc3: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0x7800-0x787f mem 
> 0xf8000000-0xf80003ff irq 12 at device 7.0 on pci2
> backup2%
> 
> 
>         ---Mike
> 
> At 01:03 PM 26/11/2003, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:56 am, neal rauhauser wrote:
>> >    I have a spare VPN1201 I bought for eval purposes - FBSD support
>> > stinks in 4.8/4.9 & 5.1 and it wouldn't work at all with any of my
>> > hardware, but works just fine with an out of the box OBSD 3.3
>> > installation. My actual deploys are going to be NET4511, some with
>> > VPN1211, so this thing is just a small, ineffective paperweight for 
>> me now.
>> >
>>
>> Funny, you've said this several places but provided no details.  I've 
>> seen no
>> issues with the vnp1201 cards I've got.  In all my (published) benchmarks
>> fbsd outperforms obsd on crypto and ipsec performance by 30-100%.
>>
>> >    I've offered it to donations at freebsd.org and go no response - 
>> figured
>> > I might get better results here. If you're a genuine kernel crypto
>> > contributor for any of the BSD projects or Linux and you're interested
>> > shoot me a note. There is a DHL office just down the road so
>> > international shipping would not be a problem.
>>
>> Odd again, I know at least one person that requested the card.  Are you
>> perhaps just trolling?
>>
>>         Sam
>>
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