A good deal depends on whether or not your applications can make use of the hardware crypto accelerator.
As I understand it (there are others on this list who will know better than I), OpenBSD and FreeBSD have a framework that makes use of the crypto hardware if it is available and supports the selected algorithm, and falls back to software otherwise. Linux only recently started adding such a framework in the 3.0 kernel development tree, and there is some controversy surrounding it. http://home.gna.org/cryptodev-linux/comparison.html Chris -)----- John Mok wrote: > Hi, > > On the coming net6501, would it help to install crypto acceleration > module, like vpn1401, or the CPU is powerful enough to do it all without > any add-on module? Is there any slot-module match to be useful? > > Thank you, John Mok > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
