First, there are a lot of discussions and papers at netdev01.org about the various hardware switch management systems. I point specifically to a talk this morning: https://www.netdev01.org/sessions/19
I have stumbed my toe on 3800 with trying to build tagged switch ports where I have a few ports with explicit VLAN tagging, joined together in the switch, and also exposed to the host. I think it should work, but I mostly just wound up screwing up my CPU port. I have some 3800 with serial consoles now so I should try this out. What would be ideal, and my impression is that this is where the industry wants to go, is that one would use brctl and vconfig to build the switch configuration that you want, and the drivers below would realize that the switch can do that work, and would program things correctly. openvswitch is about creating a virtual switch fabric in the CPU, which can spread elsewhere --- the trend is though, that this too would be subject to hardware offload. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] m...@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel