> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Siquijor Philips wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I got a dual-port Intel Gigabit NIC with 82576 (ET) chipset
> >>
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/320116.pdf. It has a feature
> >> on IPsec offloading but it only mentioned Microsoft Windows 2008 and
> >> Vista servers. I wonder if FreeBSD have also support on this feature?
> >>
> >
> > AFAIK it's not yet, not sure whether Jack has plan to implement the
> > offloading. I know old Intel i82550 also supported IPSec offloading
> > but Intel didn't release required information to implement it. 3Com
> > also supported IPSec offloading in their 3XP hardwares(txp(4)) but
> > the offloading was not implemented.
> >
>
> Hi Pyun,
>
> Thanks for your info! By the way, who is Jack? Is he the author of
> this driver? I really need to have this feature usable on the driver.
> I bought these NICs with 82576 chipset for the purpose of implementing
> IPsec in my network and my current FreeBSD servers could benefit it.
> Just really thought it has support because FreeBSD was already part of
> the supported operating system. I was alerted when I've re-read the
> product info document again that it only support Windows 2008 and
> Vista platforms. Now, I've confirmed that with the current existing
> driver. I hope this guy has the plan of implementing it sooner because
> I really need it.
>
> Thanks,
> Siquijor
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