Is if_ipsec/ipsec - AESNI accelerated ?

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Thu Aug 9 05:37:55 UTC 2018


On 09.08.2018 06:57, David P. Discher wrote:
> I’m suspecting that IPSec in FreeBSD is not leveraging AESNI on Intel.  Is this correct ?

IPsec uses crypto(9) framework that works by default without any
acceleration. You need to load aesni(4) kernel module to enable
acceleration. Also, you need to recreate security associations after
module loading to take effect.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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