switch ports on AR71xx platforms

[Biryani Niharee]

open-wrt page says that the switch chip is  AR8316. 

thanks!



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 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
To: Biryani Niharee <niharee at yahoo.com>; "freebsd-embedded at freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded at freebsd.org> 
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: switch ports on AR71xx platforms
 

Yes. But you need to provide more info about which switch phy is on the board.

Adrian
On Aug 25, 2012 3:11 PM, "Biryani Niharee" <niharee at yahoo.com> wrote:

hi Adrian,
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>  I had a different question about  AR7161 buffalo boxes with 4 port switch.
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>  If I don't use the switch-port changes (that were committed in April May timeframe),  would I still be able to use  the system's LAN ports.
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>  I can get the  1 LAN and  1 WAN port working with  trying out diff values  for  phymask.   But the remaining 3 LAN ports stay unresponsive.    I was under the impression that the  remaining 3 LAN ports will also be functional like a  basic  switch/hub;  just that I will not be able to get  VLAN and  switch/bridge controls from the OS. 
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>   Was I thinking right, about the ability to use all 4 LAN ports ?     or  will the remaining 3 only work if the  switch related code is brought in?
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>Zia
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