SSL Accelerators

[ben....@gremble.com]

this might seem a bit too obvious....

I've got an IIS6 web server now running SSL, and the box has an SSL
accelerator installed.
Will IIS automatically use the accelerator or do I need to do anything
specific?

I'm guessing it's being used automatically, but can't find anything to
confirm that!

thanks in advance...

[Will Platnick]

What is the name of the product? To me, it seems almost useless to
have a software application on the same machine do SSL acceleration.
The point of an SSL accelerator is to offload the SSL processing on a
separate machine so your web server has more free resources and thus,
can handle more traffic.

-Will Platnick
http://www.willplatnick.com

[ben....@gremble.com]

Hi Will,

We have a Cavium accelerator card which, as per my understanding, will
take the load of the SSL encryption/decryption off the core processor
and onto the installed board.
All diags are fine, and there is no noticable performance hit now it is
rolled out, so I think it must be working OK.

Thanks for your response.