Hardware and Software Requirements

TABLE 1-6provides a summary of the hardware and software requirements for the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 adapter.

TABLE 1-6Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware and Software

Requirements

 

 

Hardware

Sun Fire™ V120, V210, V240, 280R, V480, V880, 4800, 4810, 6800,

 

12K, 15K; Netra™ 20 (lw4); Sun Blade™ 100, 150, 1000, 2000

Operating

Solaris 8 2/02 and future compatible releases (Solaris 9 is required

Environment

for IPsec acceleration.)

 

 

Required Patches

Refer to the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Release Notes for additional required patch information.

The following patches may be required to run the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board on your system. Solaris updates contain patches to previous releases. Use the showrev -pcommand to determine whether the listed patches have already been installed.

You can download the patches from the following web site:

http://sunsolve.sun.com.

Install the latest version of the patches. The dash number (-01, for example) becomes higher with each new revision of the patch. If the version on the web site is higher than that shown in the following tables, it is simply a later version.

If the patch you need is not available on SunSolveSM, contact your local sales or service representative.

Apache Web Server Patch

If you plan to use the Apache Web Server, you must also install Patch 109234-09. Once the SUNWkcl2a package is added, the system will be configured with Apache Web Server mod_ssl 1.3.26.

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4000 specifications

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