After reading man 4 crypto and co I have a question I can not answer. If I would put multiple VPN cards at a single board, would it scale?
And if not what accelerator is choosed? What would happen if I have for example a VIA CPU with HW AES + a Soekris VPN 1411 (which does AES too). Btw: Is the VIA now fully supported? From my point of view it's hard to figure out if more then just AES is accelerated because VIA claims it CPUs can do: " These features include the implementation of the Quantum-based VIA PadLock RNG (Random Number Generator), and the VIA PadLock ACE (Advanced Cryptography Engine) supporting U.S. Government standard AES encryption, Secure hash SHA-1/SHA-256 encryption and accelerated RSA algorithm computation (through the inclusion of a Montgomery Multiplier). Elements of the VIA PadLock Security Engine have been integrated into the VIA C7, VIA C7-M, VIA Edenb" ESP, Edenb"-N, VIA C3B.-M, and VIA C3B. processors (see here for a comparison of recent processors). " Also man 9 crypto tells me: " When SMP time comes, we will support use of a second processor (or more) as a crypto device (this is actually AMP, but we need the same basic sup- port). " Is that statement still true? I would be thankfull for any hints because the manpages aint helpfull. regards, Sebastian
