[OpenWrt-Devel] General questions about the direction of switch drivers

[Charlie Smurthwaite]

I'm writing a driver for a family of 24 port gigabit switches, with a
wide array of interesting hardware features. Creating basic VLAN
membership and tagging functionality under the swconfig framework has
been quite easy, and this framework has been excellent for this.

However, I would like to support a lot more of the functionality of this
hardware, and see other devices with advanced layer2 and layer3
switching supported in the future, so I wanted some opinion on the
direction things are taking.

Specifically I am looking for opinion on whether the swconfig framework
is suitable for more advanced functionality, or whether there was likely
to be a move to any other upstream framework for switch devices,
particularly those with more advanced functionality. The types of
functionality I am currently interested in supporting are:

* VLAN membership an tagging
* Packet and byte counters
* Security settings and filtering rules
* STP
* Layer 3 functionality (hardware IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables)
* Hardware NAT / firewall

Some of this functionality may simply require configuration, where other
functions require the active involvement of the CPU.

Thanks,

Charlie


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