> I need. Here's my preliminary list of design goals: > > * No moving parts: Loading from a floppy or CD is a no-no; and if I can avoid a hard drive > I'll be quite pleased. Having worked extensively with Apple & DEC RISC machines, I know a floppy > is a worthless POS; > > * Since the price of Compact Flash cards is dirt cheap, and since they conform to the IDE > standard, I'm thinking of using these. This way, I can easily deploy upgrades by mailing out > replacement cards... No big shake, as Pee Wee would say;
This is probably the easiest way to go. > * The throughput (encryption rate) needs to be plenty, with room for expansion. > Fortunately, hardware is cheap, so a 1.4 gHz Athlon package is no problem whatsoever; > > * Along the NIC lines, how well do the Pro/100 S (i82550-based) > <http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/server_adapters.htm> adapters work with LEAF? This looks like a nice way to gain throughput .IF. there are linix drivers. I think the NIC's will function properly (ie send/recieve traffic), but getting the crypto acceleration hardware working with IPSec is another thing entirely. The current FreeS/WAN code isn't really setup to easily integrate hardware acceleration, although there are a few folks who have been working on this. Troll the FreeS/WAN mailing list for more info, and check out their documentation: http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/compat.html#hardwar e I think you're comitted to patching FreeS/WAN, KLIPS, and building custom kernels if you want hardware acceleration in today's FreeS/WAN. Given the data rates you're talking about, and the speed of today's hardware, I doubt you really need the HW acceleration, however...see the performance page: http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/performance.html Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
