intel 82576 ipsec offload?

[Jack Vogel]

I am out sick today, but I will see what I can find out early next week.

Jack


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>wrote:

> Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:17:00AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
>>
>>> I am Jack, the network engineer at Intel responsible for all FreeBSD
>>> wired
>>> lan drivers.
>>> This is the first I've seen about this. Our understanding was that the
>>> infrastructure needed
>>> to do IPSec was not available for either Linux or FreeBSD, can you please
>>> explain things?
>>>
>>>
>> I guess we already have crypto(9) infrastructure to support IPSec
>> in kernel. CCed to sam who may know what is required to implement
>> IPSec offloading in ethernet driver.
>>
>>
> I guess what is required is dependent on whether it's just crypto
> support, or whether the card is expected to track all the security
> associations, or whether it expects to track just a subset of them.
>
> I'm guessing that the latter may be the case.
>
>
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