Vpn hardware - silicom PXS2510 any experience ?

[stanners]

Hi
I Was thinking about building a box with a Silicom PXS2510,  its based on the Broadcom BCM5825. Should this be a problem in 2.0.1? Has anyone tried it ? The broadcom chip is on the hcl and the specs look pretty good.

IPSec 3DES with HMAC-MD5-96 or HMAC-SHA-1-96
900 Mbps

IPSec AES 128-bit key with HMAC-MD5-96 0r HMAC-SHA-1-96
1000 Mbps

I was going to tie all of this together with  a
Core 2 Quad 2.66
4GB ram
32gb SSD
and dual intel 1gbe

Would /Should I get aes 256 throughput above 700mbit if the card works ?

VPN throughput requirement is high due to wanting to synchronous  replication between datacenters without the cost of a dedicated circuit.

Any thought or comments most welcome.

Thanks.

[dotdash]

The 5825 hardware should be supported by the ubsec driver.
I used a 5821 in 1.2.3, but I have not tried the 5825. The cpu should not be a factor in your encryption speed, as it will be handled by the card.

[stephenw10]

This is still noted on the man page:

The AES capability of the BCM5823 is not yet supported; it is awaiting public disclosure of programming information from Broadcom.

Not sure if that applies to the 5825 also but it could. Not really a problem though unless you can't use 3DES for some reason.

Steve