Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: dsa: lan9303: Add basic offloading of unicast traffic

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Sat Sep 23 2017 - 10:31:43 EST


> The point is: Once both external ports are in "forwarding", I see no way
> to prevent traffic flowing directly between the external ports.

Generally, there are port vectors. Port X can send frames only to Port
Y.

If you don't have that, there are possibilities with VLANs. Each port
is given a unique VLAN. All incoming untagged traffic is tagged with
the VLAN. You just need to keep the VLAN separated and add/remove the
VLAN tag in the dsa tag driver.

Andrew