[dpdk-users] IPsec offload

[Thomas Monjalon]

06/11/2017 11:25, Avi Cohen (A):
> Thank you Thomas
> Is this was tested on a specific HW e.g.  Mellanox Innova  / other ?

Mellanox hardware will probably be supported in 18.02.
There are some experimental support for NXP DPAA2 and Intel ixgbe in DPDK 17.11.


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 05/11/2017 09:32, Avi Cohen (A):
> > > Does the DPDK  support HW IPsec offload ?
> > > can DPDK configure the NIC/Network adapter to ipsec a specific flow ?
> > 
> > Yes, an experimental IPsec offload support is added in DPDK 17.11.
> > It is called rte_security:
> > 	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_security.html
> > 
> > The hardware support will probably be improved in DPDK 18.02.