[Bridge] Re: [PATCH] (6/6) bridge: receive path optimization

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:57:05 -0700
"Atul Sabharwal" <iamatul at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a question about using the 802.1d driver with a switch.  I have a 
> managed switch
> which connects to the Xscale MAC using a Reverse MII interface.
> 
> It seems that the 802.1d bridge puts the interface into promiscuous mode and 
> needs multiple
> ethernet devices to work with.  Can it work with a single ethernet device 
> which is connected
> to a BCM5338 ( broadcomm 8 port switch chip ).

Why? what would you gain?

> I understand that I would have to change the STP configuration component to 
> write to the
> broadcomm chip.

You would be better off writing a different driver, the amount of shared
logic would be less than the per hardware logic.