[Arm-netbook] Switch chip

[luke.leighton]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss at mtu.edu> wrote:
> luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> >  I came across the AR8316, a switch chip which does VLANs,
>> > can port-mirror, etc.
>>
>>   oo - thank you.  i'll take a look this evening.  yes that one's
>> still on the cards, as GPL'd hardware.
>>
>>  thanks derek.
>>
>> l.
>>
>>
>
> Well, I continued trying to track this down, product numbers, etc.  This led
> to me spending some time on Qualcomm Atheros' site.  Here's the link for the
> current top-of-the-line:
> http://www.qca.qualcomm.com/technology/technology.php?nav1=48&product=101
>
> The AR8328 is a 7 port switch, three with GMII/RGMII and 4 with integrated
> PHY.  Sounds about right, no?  One of those three can (supposedly) be
> SGMII/SERDES, which I read as feeding into an SFP.  Which I further read as
> being a plug-able upgrade to fiber, for when we all have optical runs in our
> houses.
>
> As I said before about the 8316, this one's got a bunch of network
> management offload, like QoS based on IPv6 traffic category, hardware NAT
> (on the -N variant), and some firewall rules right on the chip.
>
> Of course, I have no idea of the cost, which is a big consideration.

 err... apparently RMB 11.23:
    http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.3.y7rSv6&id=19363854318

 divide by 6 to get $USD appx so around $1.87.

 huh.