On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:57:05 -0700 "Atul Sabharwal" <iamatul@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
