ssl accelerator cards and jail?

[Michael Scheidell]

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:45 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
>   
>> has anyone done any work with hardware ssl accelerator cards and freebsd?
>>
>>     
>
> I'm pretty sure.  Because it is a;; one kernel, the userland->kernel
> sysctls just fall through to the host.
>
> I've been meaning to try the VMWare ESXi 4.0 PCI card passthrough
> feature.
>
> Let me pass my Sun Crypto 1000 (BCM5921/23) through to a Jailhost
> FreeBSD 7.2, then try it within a jail.  Should be quite a head trip.
>
>   
thanks.  maybe I'll look into one of those and give it a try on 7.1
(worries me that 7.2 has a shorted lifespan than 7.1...)


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