recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:43:22AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> 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?
> 
> (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.")
> 
> ==ml
> 
> -- 
> Michael Lucas		mwlucas at FreeBSD.org, mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org
> 

A cheap solution would also be to buy used Alteon iSD-100, they go
for like $100-300 on ebay. Each can handle 7,000 connections and
you can put together a cluster of 32 of them. I personal do like them
although they are based on LinSux.

Haven't tried to get FreeBSD on them (its an industrial cpu board with
a 64MB compact flash).

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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