[Soekris] Development plans for faster crypto accerlator cards?

[Chuck Yerkes]

You have source.
You have examples of the port to FreeBSD from OpenBSD done by Sam
Leffler (ex of Berkeley's CSRG, SGI and a festival of places).

Patches into 2.6/2.7 kernel should be welcomed.


Quoting Peter Kirk (pwk.linuxfan at gmx.de):
> Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 06:33 schrieb Mike Tancsa:
> >          Is there even support in the LINUX kernel for general crypto
> > offloading of this sort ? i.e if you got a VPN 1401 and put it in your
> > linux box will it even use it ?  I had a quick look around via google and
> > there doesnt seem to be standard support and instead one must rely on
> > various patch sets.
> 
> Yeah it sounds like linux support will not work out-of-the-box, but I don't 
> mind patching my kernel a bit, so that is not the problem. My problem is, 
> that there is no hardware crypto accerlator card avaliable that is fast 
> enough to feed a raid composed of 8 disks.