On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have the rev. 2 (blue) hardware, that is more of an unknown (I don't
> have one of these to look at or tinker with) - the 9558 has a 720Mhz MIPS
> core, so that's better, but I found images of a different AP that uses this
> chip on the internet and it appears to use an AR8327 for the switching, so
> likely there's no integrated ethernet switch on the SoC. This means your
> max throughput is still probably a gigabit, and you might be able to
> actually get 450Mbits through that CPU. The AR8327 actually has a 96-entry
> ACL table and 64-entry VLAN translation table (as well as a bunch of more
> specialized tables that would be more difficult to use well) that could be
> used for hardware acceleration, but I doubt anyone has done the work to
> program them.
Wow, the AR8327 seems to have full public documentation:
https://lafibre.info/images/doc/201106_spec_AR8327.pdf
At a glance, it's not that general-purpose but certainly nice to
see a documented switching ASIC in a low-cost device.
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