Sounds like a good idea, but I think they probably would work best on RISC 
motherboard that has a switched cross bar non-blocking bus architecture for max 
throughput.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael J McCafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: SSL Accelerator cards
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:16:15 -0700

> 
> 
> I am talking about SSL accelerator cards for web servers.... to 
> offload the CPU intensive part of serving encrypted web pages.
> 
> Something like this:
> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/security/axl600l/
> 
> At 02:17 AM 10/15/2005, you wrote:
> 
> > Michael J McCafferty said:
> > > All,
> > >
> > >       Anyone stick one of these in their Linux web server ? How'd it work
> > > out for ya ?
> > >       Which card did you use ? What's available for non-name brand servers
> > > (not HP or Dell) ?
> >
> > If your speaking of the encryption accelerator cards, I've run them in
> > firewalls, but not with Linux, FreeBSD. I would like to have run a
> > linux firewall, but after exensive research, I found that the kernel
> > patch/module was very old, had few instructions for using it, and
> > didn't seem to be supported anymore.
> >
> > If you're talking about something else, excuse my intrusion into the
> > thread.
> >
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