[AusNOG] Experiences with web load balancers

[Adrian Chadd]

.. And to be honest, 1ru sub-$1000 1ru PCs can do quite a bit of crypto
offload these days.



Adrian
(Who has done this with Squid/Lusca quite a bit, and it's quite freakish
how fast CPUs are these days.)

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
> 
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:53 AM, David Hughes wrote:
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> > Your servers will thank you for it.
> 
> Yes, but it breaks the end-to-end cryptosystem model, which is a Bad Thing.
> 
> ;>
> 
> There are SSL accelerator cards which can be plugged into the buses of various types of servers which can offload SSL processing from the main CPU.
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