From owner-freebsd-small Sat Apr 14 21:15:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A5B37B505 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 21:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (ls1.meiway.com [212.73.210.33]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id E6ADF16B13 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:29:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010415060946.057f0e80@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:12:35 +0200 To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: The ultimate board! In-Reply-To: <3AD91B9A.581D977D@aurora.regenstrief.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >hub :-(. I understand that the 486 class CPU is sort of a bottleneck >for encryption work though, but Soren wanted to build a Hi/Fn based >hardware crypto board too. Will be some fiddling with drivers though ... Since FreeBSD has no hardware crypto support (vs OpenBSD) and none is on the announced horizon afaik, I conclude that "fiddling with drivers" is understating the difficulty of adding hardware crypto support. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training Austin,TX: 23,24/04; SFO,CA: 7,8/05 http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.3 "NT3" for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message