On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:29:22AM -0500, David Young wrote:
> 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?
In the meantime I discovered a programmers guide for the hardware.
Google for "bcm5365p.pdf". (I have no idea if this is actually
supposed to be public.) Anyway, this seems to have a complete
description of the hardware. (This includes information on
ubsec(4) and bce(4) btw.) The switch appears to have all the
features of a decent managed switch. VLANs, mirroring, QoS,
MAC address table stuff, statistics collection, etc.
Jonathan Kollasch
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