Hi John & List
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? >I have thought about it but: >A MiniPCIe card would be too low volume to warrant the engineering cost, >and thoughout the lifetime of the current vpn cards we have been >fighting with driver availability and driver quality.... >Suitable chips would be the 8200 series from HiFn (now Exar), and they >already offer the DX 1710 PCIe board. So unless somebody comes by and >want a lot of boards.... >And the next net7501 will do wirespeed gigabit ethernet encryption as >standard.... Don't ask for more details as it's NDA stuff, just let me >say it will be based on a new chipset from a major x86 processor >manufacturer and I already have an evaluation board with that chipset in >my hands.... The net7501 is going to reuse a lot of "building blocks" >from the net6501, to be launched sometimes in Q2'2012, and the price >will be reasonable. >Best Regards, >Soren Kristensen Hello Soren, Sorry about being late to this coversation, just found it. I have talked to Exar and even tracked down a DS1710. Not only is the price over $300, isn't it driver compatable with the 7955 (used in your beloved 14x1 cards) but the 82xx doesn't even perform the same functions so It wouldn't work for this task (Confirmed by Exar themselves). I think you would get demand for a 15x1 VPN card since you would be the "only game in town" for a VPN accelleration card for the PCI-E/Mini PCI-e. TB _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
