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Product Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board, and
contains the following sections:
■ “Product Features” on page 1
■ “Hardware Overview” on page 5
■ “Hardware and Software Requirements” on page 10
Product Features
The Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board is a Gigabit Ethernet-based network
interface card that supports cryptographic hardware acceleration for IPsec and SSL
(both symmetric and asymmetric) on Sun servers. In addition to operating as a
standard Gigabit Ethernet network interface card for unencrypted network traffic,
the board contains cryptographic hardware to support a higher throughput for
encrypted IPsec traffic than the standard software solution.
Key Protocols and Interfaces
The Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board is interoperable with existing Ethernet
equipment assuming standard Ethernet minimum and maximum frame size (64 to
1518 bytes), frame format, and compliance with the following standards and
protocols:
■ Full-size PCI 33/66 Mhz, 32/64-bit
■ IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD (Ethernet)
■ IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
■ SNMP (limited MIB)
■ Full- and half-duplex Gigabit Ethernet interface (IEEE 802.z)
■ Universal dual voltage signaling (3.3V and 5V)