<p>I didn't reply because I had no numbers to relate, but the newer Intel chips have at least AES acceleration baked in.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 6, 2012 1:00 PM, "George Rosamond" <<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 06/06/12 12:48, George Rosamond wrote:<br>
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Wondering about others' experiences with Hifn card on FreeBSD.<br>
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Looking for something not too expensive, mostly for SSL/TLS acceleration.<br>
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Have used padlock(4) and glxsb(4), the later on Alix boards.<br>
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Went through the hifn(4) man page, but would love to hear about<br>
experiences, not read about them.<br>
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Well still curious to hear about others' experiences, but it seems for what I need, CPU matters more, in that there will be lots of little work, not some big fat work :)<br>
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g<br>
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