Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:03:35 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: Siquijor Philips <siquijorphilips@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, sam@FreeBSD.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel 82576 ipsec offload? Message-ID: <4ACF8907.9000905@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20091009184831.GH3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <a27b90e40910072224q2a79cbd9k2f789cb6d1513157@mail.gmail.com> <20091008174521.GE3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <a27b90e40910082114q6e4faa7ai3553e37d449ae2db@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0910091117q6cfab252sa8d5dfcf0182b660@mail.gmail.com> <20091009184831.GH3843@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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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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