Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

[Martin Moerman]

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
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