This is silly. I shouldn't have to replace my hardware to support a feature I will not use...
I shame Netgate for such an artificial limitation... Thank you for the information. On 02/15/2018 12:20 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Well: > > https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html so we are talking > about 2.5 not 3.x ? > > "While we’re not revealing the extent of our plans, we do want to give > early notice that, in order to support the increased cryptographic loads > that we see as part of pfSense verison 2.5, pfSense Community Edition > version 2.5 will include a requirement that the CPU supports AES-NI. On > ARM-based systems, the additional load from AES operations will be > offloaded to on-die cryptographic accelerators, such as the one found on > our SG-1000 <https://www.netgate.com/products/sg-1000.html>. ARM v8 CPUs > include instructions like AES-NI > <https://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_Architecture.pdf> that can be > used to increase performance of the AES algorithm on these platforms." > > > Eero > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Edwin Pers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe I read somewhere that the new version that requires aes-ni will >> be 3.x, and they plan to continue the 2.x line alongside it, as 3.x will be >> a major rewrite >> >> >> -Ed >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eero >> Volotinen >> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 12:14 PM >> To: Kyle Marek <[email protected]> >> Cc: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [pfSense] Configs or hardware? >> >> Well. Next version of pfsense (2.5) will not install into hardware that >> does not support AES-NI, so buying such hardware is not wise ? >> >> Eero >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pfSense mailing list >> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >> Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold >> > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
