Hi, Will the hardware do just switching, or also routing? Does the hardware have some kind of built-in ethernet address table? Inhowfar is the chip programmable, i.e., can you upload code into it? Etc. etc.
cheers, Lennert On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:14:31PM +0200, Georg Klug wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
