> > This behavior is going to depend on the switch chip embedded in the SoC > onTomas's device. The Linux kernel or its bridging behavior won't be > involved > until the traffic leaves the switch. >
Ah, now I know why I didn't understand this nor agree with it. The embedded image of the Asus WL 500G wireless router that I tried to share but was rejected shows the 4 LAN ports hardwired together as a multi-port bridge all in VLAN 0. Any packets coming in one LAN port are simply copied and sent out all the ports of the multi-port bridge. That's all a bridge does at layer 2 (Data Link) and is handled by the 1 Ethernet controller that all the LAN ports are connected to. The SoC isn't in play here at all unless the Ethernet controller determined that a packet needed to be switched and then would forward the packet to SoC. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
