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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 nick@snowman.net wrote:
> So what is the truth to the rumors 3com was throwing around about the
> "linux driver with ipsec support"?
> Nick
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Martin Moerman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> >
> > > > Now, if the NIC were to integrate with OpenSSL and offload some of THAT
> > > > donkey work... Just offloading DES isn't terribly useful, as Pavel says:
> > > > apart from anything else, DES is a bit elderly now - SSH using 3DES or
> > > > Blowfish etc... How dedicated is this card? Could it be used to offload
> > > > other work?
> > >
> > > Sorry my bad it is 3DES that they have on it, but I don't know how
> > > in-grained it is in it. Like I sad it just floated across my desk a few
> > > days ago and it sounded like a cool bit of hardware.
> >
> >
> > The card is offloading TCP/IP checksums, TCP/IP packet fragmentation, and
> > does IPSEC through the ARM9 proc.
> >
> > I like the card. but no real real linux drivers yet. only basic network
> > card drivers for linux.
> >
> > /Martin
> > martin_moerman@eur.3com.com
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Brent Norris
> > >
> > > Executive Advisor -- WKU-Linux
> > >
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> > >
> > > "The problem with the Linux learning curve is that it is _so_ steep once
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> > >
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