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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:40:35 +0000
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Subject:   Re: IPSEC offloading on Intel PRO/100 S
Message-ID:  <20020301104035.D5099@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020301043209.0358c418@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:33:04AM -0600
References:  <20020301094714.B5099@spc.org> <20020301094714.B5099@spc.org> <20020301095844.GK77980@elvis.mu.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20020301043209.0358c418@mail.Go2France.com>

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:33:04AM -0600, Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> > > o Would anybody be interested in my adding support for this beast's crypto
> > >   features to the fxp driver?
> >
> >Yes. :)
> 
> Is there ANY hardware encryption support in FreeBSD?

Things are gradually being rearranged to facilitate this, as part of SMPng.
At the moment the IP stack runs solely as a software interrupt. Since 4.4,
there has been the notion of interface capabilities. Normally this is only
used for TCP/UDP/IP checksum offloading.

BMS

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