Hi all,

I am planning to implement a device driver for a switch 
chip in Linux. It supports more than 20 ethernet ports.
Currently I am thinking of a concept how this could fit 
correctly in the Linux network architecture.
 The simliest way would possibly be to export all the 
ports as individual device nodes (eth0 to eth23) and let
the current bridge run ontop of theses nodes. But still
there would be some work to do:
 - disable somehow the forwarding (since this is done 
   already in the hardware)
 - do some hardware related stuff on port states chnages.

Any comments? Am I thinking towards the correct direction?
Thanks in advance,
Georg Klug
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