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Hi, Just got some of the new Soekris 1401 VPN cards based on the hifn 7955 chip. hifn0 mem 0xe8510000-0xe8517fff,0xe8518000-0xe8519fff,0xe851a000-0xe851afff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1 hifn0: Hifn 7955, rev 0, 32KB dram, 64 sessions vs hifn0 mem 0xeb902000-0xeb902fff,0xeb901000-0xeb901fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 hifn0: Hifn 7951, rev 0, 128KB sram, 193 sessions When it say...

I got roughly the same performance results when I use the openssl speed test with and without a hifn 7956 cryto card Here's what I did: After the card is plugged in, kldload hifn; kldload cryptodev; I got the message: hifn0 mem 0xfc8f0000-0xfc8f7ffff, 0xfc8f0000-0xfc8f7ffff, 0xfc8f0000-0xfc8f7ffff irg 28 at device 3.0 on pci1 hifn0: Hifn 7956, rev 0, 32KB dram, pll=0x800<pci clk, 4x mult> Then I ran: Openssl speed des-cbc And got the following result: 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 43251...

Hi, I'm pondering building my own SSL accelerator out of a multi-CPU FreeBSD system and a crypto accelerator. What's the recommended hardware crypto accelerator card these days? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org Today's chance of throwing it all away to start a goat farm: 49.1% http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/