ncp(7D) 																   ncp(7D)

NAME

       ncp - Niagara crypto provider device driver

       The  ncp device driver is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver supporting hardware assisted acceleration of RSA and DSA cryptographic
       operations. This support is built into the Niagara CMT processor.

       The ncp driver requires the presence of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework to enable applications and kernel clients to  access  the  pro-
       vided services.

CONFIGURATION

       You  configure  the ncp driver by defining  properties in /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf which override the default settings. The fol-
       lowing property is supported:

       nostats	       Disables the generation of  statistics. The nostats property may be used to help prevent traffic  analysis,  but  this  may
		       inhibit support personnel.

NETWORK STATISTICS

       Solaris network drivers must implement statistics variables. The ncp driver maintains the following statistics:

       mauXqfull	       Number of times the queue for MAU X was found full when attempting to submit jobs.

       mauXupdate_failure      Number of submit job failures on MAU X.

       mauXsubmit	       Number of jobs submitted to MAU X since driver load (boot).

       rsapublic	       Total number of	jobs submitted to the device for RSA public key operations.

       rsaprivate	       Total number of	jobs submitted to the device for RSA private key operations.

       dsasign		       Total number of	jobs submitted to the device for DSA signing.

       dsaverify	       Total number of jobs submitted to the device for DSA verification.

       Additional  statistics  may  be supplied for Sun support personnel, but are not useful to Solaris users and are not doc-    umented in this
       manpage.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcakr.v		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Unstable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

FILES

       /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ncp

	   64-bit ELF kernel driver.

       /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/ncp.conf

	   Configuration file.

       cryptoadm(1M), kstat(1M), prtconf(1M), attributes(5)

       Solaris Cryptographic Framework -- Solaris Software Developer Collection

       Solaris Security for Developer's Guide -- Solaris Software Developer Collection

								    14 Mar 2005 							   ncp(7D)