Re: Routerboard RB600 and hifn(4)

2012-01-24 Thread Janne Johansson
I think accelerator cards need to provide both checksumming (md5 or sha1) and crypto in HW before its actually any use. Otherwise you will spend most of your time copying data around. 2012/1/22 Stefan Johansson steve.johans...@telia.com: Hello! Does anyone on the list have experience with a

Re: Routerboard RB600 and hifn(4)

2012-01-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Janne Johansson icepic...@gmail.com wrote: I think accelerator cards need to provide both checksumming (md5 or sha1) and crypto in HW before its actually any use. Which hifn(4) does. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

Routerboard RB600 and hifn(4)

2012-01-23 Thread Stefan Johansson
Hello! Does anyone on the list have experience with a hifn(4) card (such as the Soekris vpn1411) in a Routerboard RB600? I'm using it for an ipsec tunnel (isakmpd between RB600 and an other OpenBSD i386 box) and would like to know if it will give me any performance increase before I purchase one?