[Openswan Users] Openswan + OCF problem

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Henri Bragge wrote:

> I'm trying to make a VPN connection between two workstations with OCF-based
> Hifn 7955 hw acceleration. I think the OCF-hifn part works fine (not sure
> though), but I get no certainty if the Openswan really uses OCF or not.
>
> I have Debian on kernel 2.4.32, Openswan 2.4.5rc6 with OCF patches, and of
> course OCF with required patches (from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133575&package_id=146696).
>
> So the problem is that simple ftp transfer over the VPN gives the same
> download speed with OCF enabled and disabled. What should the ipsec module
> show with lsmod? Should it show "used by ocf" or something? Now it seems to be
> unused. Not 100% sure if the OCF-Hifn part (ocf using hifn7751 module) part
> works either.

Make sure the software driver is not loaded. It will take precedence over the
hifn accelerated driver.

Paul
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