Nice Firewall box from IPC2u

DanielSHaischt

you could try to use the soekris crypto card together with the minipci slot if you want HW crypto acceleration.

Cheers
Daniel S. Haischt

mlabenda

Yeah i got one of the Sekris Cards (miniPCI) and this box does have a miniPCI Slot.
Does pfsense support this card ?
I have read things about it, that maybe the PCI bus can be a bottleneck.
But on a 16Mbit line it shoud be a big deal. I hope
Anway the box has been ordered and i will keep you posted how it works

hoba

The soekris acceleraters are supported. You will see a "hifnXXXX" listed at status>system if it is detected and used.

Nick

Would these Soekris accelerators work with OpenVPN?

gbelanger

hoba:

I've been testing the padlock module with the latest snapshots, the good news if that the module doesn't need to be patched anymore.

By default, OpenSSL does not make use of the padlock engine in my tests. However, I believe FAST_IPSEC can easily be adjusted to take advantage of the padlock module through the setkey utility (see commented lines in vpn.inc).

I'm going to run some tests this week to try and benchmark ipsec with and without the module, I'll let you guys know.

fwuser07

Hi

I'm interessted in the IPC2U box.

Has anyone checked the throughput between two gigabit interfaces? I can't find any datasheet.

ZGamer

@hoba:

The soekris acceleraters are supported. You will see a "hifnXXXX" listed at status>system if it is detected and used.

Been using some older ones with IPSEC tunnels and they work great, better throughput and lower latency than without.

sai

VIA C3, pfSense snapshot 27-2-2007

command:
#openssl engine padlock

gave me ACE but no RNG (ie the crypto engine is recognised, but the random number generator is not there or is not used).

Have no benchmarks though…

covex

@Rusty64bit:

I just found a nice box at IPC2U.de

http://www.ipc2u.de/catalog/M/MB/33520.html

Mobile Celeron 1,2
max 1 GB DDR Ram
4x 100Mbit or 4x 1 Gbit Intel
miniPCI Slot
PCI Slot
2,5 or 3,5 Disks are possible.

Does anybody run this box ?
would be perfekt for my homeoffices with pfsense
Just the price :(

so… was any testing done on this box? looks interesting...

heiko

Hi, i have bought 10 pieces but the delivery follows….
I will update the information about the box in the next future....
bye
heiko