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Preface
The Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Installation and User’s Guide lists the features,
protocols, and interfaces of the Sun™ Crypto Accelerator 4000 board and describes
how to install, configure, and manage the board in your system.
This book assumes that you are a network administrator with experience
configuring one or more of the following: Solaris™ operating environment, Sun
platforms with PCI I/O cards, Sun™ ONE and Apache WebServers, IPsec,
SunVTS™ software, and certification authority acquisitions.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized as follows:
■Chapter 1lists the product features, protocols, and interfaces of the Sun Crypto
Accelerator 4000 board, and describes the hardware and softwarerequirements.
■Chapter 2describes how to install and remove the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000
hardware and software.
■Chapter 3defines the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 tunable driver parameters and
describes how to configurethem with the ndd utility and the vca.conf file.This
chapter also describes how to enable autonegotiation or forced mode for link
parameters at the OpenBoot™ PROM interface and how to configurethe network
hosts file.
■Chapter 4describes how to configurethe Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board and
manage keystores with the vcaadm and vcadiag utilities.
■Chapter 5 explains how to configurethe Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board for
use with Sun ONE WebServers.
■Chapter 6 explains how to configurethe Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board for
use with Apache WebServers.