Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

[<nick@snowman.net>]

So what is the truth to the rumors 3com was throwing around about the
"linux driver with ipsec support"?
	Nick

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Martin Moerman wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> 
> > > Now, if the NIC were to integrate with OpenSSL and offload some of THAT
> > > donkey work... Just offloading DES isn't terribly useful, as Pavel says:
> > > apart from anything else, DES is a bit elderly now - SSH using 3DES or
> > > Blowfish etc... How dedicated is this card? Could it be used to offload
> > > other work?
> > 
> > Sorry my bad it is 3DES that they have on it, but I don't know how
> > in-grained it is in it.  Like I sad it just floated across my desk a few
> > days ago and it sounded like a cool bit of hardware.
> 
> 
> The card is offloading TCP/IP checksums, TCP/IP packet fragmentation, and
> does IPSEC through the ARM9 proc.
> 
> I like the card. but no real real linux drivers yet. only basic network
> card drivers for linux.
> 
> /Martin
> martin_moerman@eur.3com.com
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