netdev - Re: Marvell 88E609x switch?

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Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:02:19 -0700
From:	Gary Thomas <gary@...assoc.com>
To:	jdb@...x.dk
CC:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...u.dk>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Marvell 88E609x switch?

Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:52 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:32 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> Any ideas how I might troubleshoot why packets that come
>>> into lan1.1 (port 0) aren't being pushed to the CPU port?
>> The switch supports port monitoring, with seperate ingress and egress
>> mapping, thus you could place another PC on another port and direct
>> traffic towards that, and by tcpdump inspecting ingress and egress on
>> the different physical ports... Thats how I debugged it once...
>>
>> I also used/implemented the VLAN violation interrupt, while I debugged
>> the VLAN setup.   The switch also have a ATU (MAC-table) violation
>> interrupt, perhaps that might tell you something?
> 
> Another thing... An IXP425 specific change I had to make, was to disable
> NPE_learning for the ixp400_eth driver.
> 
>  insmod ixp400_eth npe_learning=0
> 
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(npe_learning, "If non-zero, NPE MAC Address Learning &
> Filtering feature will be enabled");
> 
> Perhaps the GIANFAR driver also has this kind of MAC address filtering?
> 

I don't think this is a problem; no packets are getting
[back] to the gianfar interface (based on RX interrupt counts)

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