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What should be the abstraction for ethernet switches?

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Subject: What should be the abstraction for ethernet switches?
From: Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 17:03:22 -0700

More and more embedded boards come with ethernet switch switches that attach 
directly to the MII interface of an ethernet controller.

So where do we plug these into autoconf?

How do they interact with the vlan and bridge interfaces?

Do we reveal the other switch ports as interfaces?

ifconfig arswitch0.1 media ....

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