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We already do. The Mellanox ConnectX6-Dx with crypto support.. It does inline crypto on TLS records as they are transmitted. This saves memory bandwidth, as
by drewg123 4y ago
We already do. The Mellanox ConnectX6-Dx with crypto support.. It does inline crypto on TLS records as they are transmitted. This saves memory bandwidth, as compared to a traditional lookaside card.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoWhat's the error rate, or uptime ratio, of those cards?
- drewg123 4y agoWere you assuming they were giant FPGA based NICs..? They are production server NICs, using asics with a reasonable power budget. I don't recall any failures.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoWell I wasn't, though I was expecting some non-zero amount of failures. That's pretty impressive if it's literally zero. How many machines are deployed with NICs?
- drewg123 4y agoI don't have any visibility into how many DOA NICs we have, so I can't say that Mellanox is better or worse at that point. But I do see most NIC related tickets for NIC failures once machines are in production. In general, we've found Mellanox NICs to be very reliable.