recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040408144322.GA83448 at bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>, "Michae
l W. Lucas" writes:
>On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >>Look at VPN14x1 from www.soekris.com, it's darn cheap too.
>
>Thanks, phk!
>
>For $79, it's cheap enough that I could put a whole stack of them in a
>machine.  Can FreeBSD take advantage of multiple cards like that?

I think so, but I am not sure the code currently does load-sharing
or just "try to find a card which can do this job" sharing.

Maybe sam@ would know, you should probably ask him.

>(Yes, that's a serious concern; I'm looking at 15,000 simultaneous
>users on a SSL Web site, and would prefer to avoid spending the big
>bucks on a so-called "hardware SSL accelerator.")

Whee :-)

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