From: Wong, Terence (twong@EDS.COM)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 14:45:38 EDT
This is the one that your colleague mentioned.
Using the IP Security Hardware Assist Feature of the IBM 10/100 Mbps
Ethernet PCI Adapter II (F/C 4962)
The 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PCI Adapter II (F/C 4962) is a small form factor,
single port PCI
Ethernet adapter. This high performance, low power Ethernet 10/100Mbps LAN
adapter can be
used in both client and server PCI systems. The 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PCI
Adapter II provides
both 10Base-T and 100Base-TX full duplex Ethernet LAN connectivity. The
adapter supports
Category-5 unshielded twisted pair cabling for both 10/100 Mbps and
Category-3 unshielded
twisted pair cabling for 10 Mbps.
After 4/26/02, the 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PCI Adapter II supports the offload
of IP Security
(IPSec) cryptographic algorithms by providing hardware assistance in
performing data encryption
and authentication.
The cryptographic algorithms to be offloaded to the adapter are:
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Triple DES
The authentication algorithms to be offloaded to the adapter include:
HMAC
MDA5
HMAC SHA.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken_Sedlacek@KYRUS.COM [mailto:Ken_Sedlacek@KYRUS.COM]
Sent: September 6, 2002 2:16 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: IPSec??
Enviro:
2 H50s and 2 H70s,
all at AIX 4.3.3.10,
each with 2 IBM 10/100 Ethernet PCI adapters.
A colleague of mine asked me if the RS/6000 network card has anything to do
with implementing IPSec.?
He said that there are network cards that do some off-loading work for
IPSec so that the RS/6000 isn't burdened with it.
I know one must load some specific filesets in order the configure it in
AIX.
Any thoughts on the network card off-loading IPSec from the CPU?
Ken Sedlacek
AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator
ksedlacek@kyrus.com
IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support
IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP & PSSP 3
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1
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