[Openswan Users] newbie question: How to configure openswan to use AES-NI acceleration on CentOS 6?

[Michael Furman]

Daniel,
Thank you for the fast reply.
Can you clarify if I need to do something in openswan configuration files after I configure CentOS to load aesni_intel kernel module?
Best regards,
    Michael

Subject: Re: [Openswan Users] newbie question: How to configure openswan to use AES-NI acceleration on CentOS 6?
From: dan.cave at me.com
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:04:27 +0000
CC: users at lists.openswan.org
To: michael_furman at hotmail.com

Hi

The aes module should be loaded at boot time using modules.conf as you can call it there , once the kernel has loaded it up you can use lsmod to check it's installed and why which point ipsec/openswan should have loaded afterwards. You might want to do some digging if you want to do something else but from what I'm familiar with centos/redhat my have updated the centos district so you probably want to do a yum update to refresh the repo for the bug fix if they have included it 😜👍
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On 28 Feb 2016, at 13:38, Michael Furman <michael_furman at hotmail.com> wrote:




Hi all,
I have tried to search web and the openswan list but I can not find how to configure openswan to use AES-NI acceleration on CentOS 6.


I just found that RedHat has fixed bug that openswan does not load the aesni_intel kernel module:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957400

Therefore after the fix openswan should load the aesni_intel kernel module on Redhat 6.5 (and therefore on CentOS .5).

How should I configure openswan to load the aesni_intel kernel module?

Thank you in advance for your help and best regards,
    Michael
 		 	   		  
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