From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Brent D. Norris" <brent@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:12:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010612161237.C33@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106111918550.8612-100000@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106111918550.8612-100000@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>; from brent@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:24:11PM -0500
Hi!
> I just had one of the "3com Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC with 3XP processor"
> float accross my desk, I was wondering how much the linux kernel uses the
> 3xp processor for its encryption offloading and such. According to the
> hype it does DES without using the CPU, does linux take advantage of that?
Doing DES is uninteresting these days...
That feature is useless --- everything but IPsec does encryption at
application layer where NIC can not help.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-12 0:24 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor Brent D. Norris
2001-06-12 0:29 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-12 0:43 ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-12 1:18 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-12 16:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-12 16:12 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-13 10:30 ` James Sutherland
2001-06-14 19:13 ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-14 21:13 ` Martin Moerman
2001-06-14 21:18 ` nick
2001-06-14 21:26 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-14 21:32 ` nick
2001-06-14 21:37 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:40 ` nick
2001-06-14 21:41 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-15 15:12 ` Pete Wyckoff
2001-06-15 15:37 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-15 15:52 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2001-06-16 9:12 ` Martin Moerman
2001-06-18 14:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-25 15:42 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-14 21:40 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-14 21:45 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:48 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-14 21:51 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-25 15:45 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-14 21:37 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-15 2:50 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-06-15 2:47 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-06-15 2:51 ` nick
2001-06-15 4:01 ` [OT] " Brent D. Norris
2001-06-15 14:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-15 14:59 ` Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-06-17 16:35 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-16 9:04 ` Martin Moerman
2001-06-12 16:27 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-12 2:27 Brent D. Norris
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