[Openswan Users] Openswan + OCF problem

[Kim Phillips]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:46:20 +0200 (CEST)
Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
If the crypto part is being used, you should see both network and crypto hw related interrupts increment with packet activity in /proc/interrupts.

Kim