[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.

 http://search.taobao.com/search?q=rtl8305sc&rsclick=10
http://www.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/pdf/205567/ETC2/RTL8305SC-LF.html
http://hands.com/~lkcl/rtl8305sc-lf.pdf

 that one looks great.  integrated 5-port ethernet.  ok it's 10/100
but it wouldn't need any other ICs (the 8316 would need one PHY IC per
port, the 8305SC doesn't).  8305SC has auto-sensing for cross-over
cables, too.

thoughts?

l.