I guess more than anything I would like to see utilization per port instead
of aggregate. Beggers and choosers and the like I suppose. Thanks for
clarifying.

-Ty

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Scott Reed <sr...@nwwnet.net> wrote:

> You only have "1 port" as far as statistics because everything is driven
> by ether 2.  The way you did it is correct, but MTs implementation does not
> give statistics on the slave ports.
> What do you mean by "manage each port."?
> By definition, all the traffic is exactly the same on all bridge ports.
> As switch is different in that it "routes" MAC addresses, but there still
> isn't really anything to manage on a per port basis in the MT
> implementation.
>
>
> On 6/15/2012 11:39 AM, Ty Featherling wrote:
>
>> I ask this about routerboards in general but I am dealing with a 750up at
>> the moment. This model has a switch chip and ether2-5 are all tied to it.
>> In order to get traditional switch functionality do I need to create a
>> bridge and add those ports to the bridge? I tried slaving 3-5 to ether2
>> and
>> that does the trick but then I only get stats for that one port. I have a
>> dhcp server setup for downstream devices but I want to be able to manage
>> each port as needed. Is a bridge the way to go?
>>
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