Re: [PATCH 06/12] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: add ACL entry to redirect STP to CPU
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Nov 06 2019 - 11:01:17 EST
> If I do this, I would have an L2 switch that relies on IP traffic
> passing through it.
Yes.
> Also, if I use ACLs to model dynamic FDB entries than I will need to "software age
> the ACLs... which is at least not ideal.
The bridge will do that for you.
> Andrew, thanks for all the advice given but I feel like I have to see if the firmware
> can be changed to better model the CPU traffic before adding a lot of hacks and
> pushing something with the current implementation.
Yes. I agree. If the firmware can change, great. If not, you might
have to do these hacks.
Andrew