QAT Question - Any benefits besides VPN ?
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I have a spare QAT card that I could add to my Pfsense box, would enabling QAT provide any benefits outside of VPN use cases.
For example would it accelerate or improve performance of SSL or TLS in regards to clients browsing websites such as youtube. Just trying to understand if there would be any benefit at all besides accelerating VPN tunnels, the network in question has no VPN or IPSEC tunnels of any kind, it a clean flat network.
Web Proxy, IDS, etc. anything that could warrant the extra power draw ?
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@ngr2001 Could make the connection to the webgui faster ;) Not sure would warrant the extra power draw.. Could help I guess if your doing ssl offload with haproxy or something.
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Well my next project is to setup a web proxy I assume some kind of transparent mode would be ideal. This is a home network and the only reason for having a proxy is to block adult content from my kids devices. On my personal devices I will likely simply bypass the proxy via MAC address. Just need to make sure a random kid on their tablet or even guest that comes over can't get to anything X rated.
In that use case would QAT provide any benefit ?
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@ngr2001 off the top of my head I would say no, unless you were doing some sort of the mitm with your ssl.. Which you sure not going to be able to do with guest machines.
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If you have a CPU with QAT on-board then you might as well enable it. If you're considering adding QAT hardware then almost certainly not worth it IMO.
