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Re: Problems with H/W SSL acceleration

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:30:54 -0700, "Steven Paster" <SPaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to use a Cavium H/W SSL acceleration card to accelerate SSL
> encryption.  The Cavium driver builds and installs without complaint. 
> Cavium supplies an SDK for building libcrypto.a and libssl.a.  These too
> built without issue.  
> 
> We compiled Squid 3.1.0.4 statically using the Cavium supplied libraries
> and the configuration options:  "--with-openssl=<cavium-base-directory>"
> and " --enable-ssl". (We used ldd to confirm that Squid built statically
> with the correct libraries.) In our squid.conf file we added "ssl_engine
> cavium" as per information provided by Cavium; but, we get the message:
> FATAL Unable to find SSL engine 'cavium'.  Cavium has tested with Apache
> but never with Squid.

Please try with current 3.1 or snapshot to be sure this is not already
fixed.
We have a few thousand lines of code changed every Squid beta release,
3.1.0.4 is now quite old.

> 
> Questions:
> 1) Does Squid require a patch for SSL crypto h/w acceleration?
> 2) Are there any Squid settings I need to know about?
> 3) Has anyone been successful with another h/w card? We are not wedded to
> Cavium.
> 
> 
> Forgive me if this territory has been covered in the past; I'm new to
> Squid.  Thank you in advance for any help,
> 
> Steven Paster
> FaceTime Communications

Amos
Squid-3 Release Maintainer


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