IKE Hardware Acceleration

This feature is new in the Software Express pilot program and in the Solaris 9 4/03 release. This feature is included in the Solaris 10 3/05 release.

Public-key operations in IKE can be accelerated by a Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 card and Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 cards. The operations are offloaded to the card. The offloading accelerates encryption and reduces demands on Solaris Operating System resources.

For information about IKE, see the following in System Administration Guide: IP Services:

• “Configuring IKE to Find Attached Hardware”

• “Internet Key Exchange (Overview)”

• “IKE and Hardware Acceleration”

• “Configuring IKE (Tasks)”

• “Configuring IKE to Find Attached Hardware”