Opened 7 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#8325 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Marvell/Orion WRT350NV2 is still using a "softswitch" in OpenWRT
Reported by: | Ernesto | Owned by: | developers |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | base system | Version: | Trunk |
Keywords: | MARVELL ORION SWITCH SUPPORT | Cc: |
Description
The Marvell Orion WRT350Nv2 is still used as "softswitch" by adding "LAN1 LAN2 LAN3 LAN4" to a soft-bridge. This is absurd with a Hardware-Switch that handles 4 GE-Ports on a slow device.
The better choise is, using the mv-switch and create Bridges/vlans the usual way with swconfig and usual tools by configure that switchchip directly in hardware and route the different GE-ports via vlans to the CPUs internal GE-Port, like other Routers does.
Is an enhancement possible by using the integrated marvell GE-switch ?
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comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 7 years ago by mrk
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 7 years ago by KanjiMonster
Replying to mrk:
follow this mailing-list entry:
http://amailbox.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/6/18/6279640/thread
when the dsa-driver for the marvell-switch is loaded, brctl creates a "hardware" brigde.
Actually it doesn't. There was an RFC patch for implementing that in the DSA/bridge logic, but it never got into the kernel (and isn't in OpenWrt). Currently its purely software bridging in linux with DSA (one more reason to drop it).
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by florian
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
follow this mailing-list entry:
http://amailbox.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/6/18/6279640/thread
when the dsa-driver for the marvell-switch is loaded, brctl creates a "hardware" brigde.