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

[Egil Hjelmeland]

Den 23. sep. 2017 16:31, skrev Andrew Lunn:
> > 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
Thanks. The lan9303 has nothing like "port vectors". The port tagging
scheme is VLAN based, but is does not prevent direct forwarding between
the external ports.

In order to not break the strong port separation in the current driver;
I will stick to my solution, and only add caching of the STP state
register.

Egil