Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: dsa: lan9303: Transmit using ALR when unicast

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Nov 01 2017 - 08:04:41 EST


On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 03:48:00PM +0100, Egil Hjelmeland wrote:
> lan9303_xmit_use_arl() introduced in previous patch set is wrong.
> The chip flood broadcast and unknown multicast frames. The effect is that
> broadcasts and multicasts are duplicated on egress. It is not possible to
> configure the chip to direct unknown multicasts to CPU port only.
>
> This means that only unicast frames can be transmitted using ALR lookup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew