Randy,
I know it's a good idea. So, do the makers of the cards and
the larger web sites that use SSL at the rate of tousands of
transactions per second. Off-loading the encryption to a purpose
built system, weather it's a card in the server or a dedicated system
or specialized load-balancer, will help performance... that's the
pitch. These cards have been available for Windows machines for
years, on name brand hardware. They have also been available for
Linux on name brand hardware for a few years now.
I wanna know if anyone has used these cards on
non-HP/Compaq, non-Dell systems, and what distros they have used them
with. How are the drivers ? I wanna know if anyone has anything
significant to report on the use of these cards. Can I expect good
results putting one of these cards in to a smaller Supermicro
Superserver and RHEL 3 or 4 ? Or am I better off load balancing more
commodity servers that cost less than a grand ?
Mike
At 08:44 AM 10/15/2005, you wrote:
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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