Re: managed switches on mii(4)

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:31:20PM +0000, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in being able to control a 5/6-port managed switch
> attached to a bce(4)'s mii(4) interface.
> 
> I saw the idea of using bridge(4) to take advantage of the  hard-
> ware  switch,  but  somehow this seems like an unusual idea.  The
> switch hardware has more configuration options than  just  bridg-
> ing.  (Although  those  features may not be fully documented pub-
> licly.)

What are those configuration options?

Dave

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