On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:47:19PM +0800, Luo Jie wrote: > From: Lei Wei <quic_leiwei@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Configure the default L2 bridge settings for the PPE ports to > enable L2 frame forwarding between CPU port and PPE Ethernet > ports. It would be good to have an 'only' in there: > to _only_ > enable L2 frame forwarding between CPU port and PPE Ethernet > ports That makes it clear there is no port to port forwarding, the ports are isolated. > The per-port L2 bridge settings are initialized as follows: > For PPE CPU port, the PPE bridge TX is enabled and FDB learn is > disabled. For PPE physical port, the PPE bridge TX is disabled > and FDB learn is enabled by default and the L2 forward action > is initialized as forward to CPU port. Why is learning needed on physical ports? In general, switches forward unknown destination addresses to the CPU. Which is what you want when the ports are isolated from each other. Everything goes to the CPU. But maybe this switch does not work like this? Andrew
