making a dumb switch into a smart one

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 26 23:55:21 UTC 2007


Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> partly off topic, but maybe someone migth find this interesting
> given that the device can do vlan tag insertion/removal,
> so it can be used to provide additional fan-in/fan-out
> to freebsd-based routers in not too high-speed networks.
>   
Were you trying to perform the same evil experiment on the Asound 4-port 
Ethernet 'switch' PCI card which I found in my/your old office at ICSI? ;-)

I think it was Juli Mallett who said she had code to deal with the Asound.

This is cool.

BMS


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