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
