Did you get the sense people with the relevant skill were open to a bounty for implementing the necessary fixes?
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > I was at the FreeBSD Vendor Summit last week, and raised the AES-NI > issue as "important to be solved in the next six months". > > The issue and fix are understood, it just needs someone to implement > it (and then, presumably, backport it to 8.3, so we can release an > update to 2.1 (2.1.1 or similar). > > Jim > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Thinker Rix <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > On 2013-11-06 07:53, Thinker Rix wrote: > >> > >> as I am planning to buy new hardware for pfSense, I was wondering if it > is > >> worthy to buy a CPU that supports "AES new instructions", i.e. > >> hardware-support for AES encyption. > > > > > > As I learned in this thread (big thanks to everybody participating), > AES-NI > > is adding no value to pfSense currently, at all. So currently the only > > solution is to throw GHz at the problem. > > > > Searching myself through the web to learn what CPU speed I would need to > > achieve my desired 450 MBit/s VPN (or come at least somewhat close to > this > > theoretical max), I found this: > > > http://forums.freenas.org/threads/encryption-performance-benchmarks.12157/ > > I copied those measurements found there into a spreadsheet so to analyze > > those values. If anybody is interested in this spreadsheet (.ods), I can > > send it to him via private mail (I guess binaries are not allowed in the > > mailing list). Just drop me a message. > > > > > > Regards > > Thinker Rix > > _______________________________________________ > > List mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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