Hi Colin,

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:35:19PM +0200, Colin Leitner wrote:
> I'm interested in adding port mirroring support to OpenWRT, which allows to
> reuse a switch port to "sniff" on another port. This is a great debugging
> tool and is supported by most managed switches (e.g. [4]).
> 
> The two patches for the rtl8366rb [1] and ar8216 [2] drivers haven't drawn
> much (any?) attention and I wanted to know if I can help integrating them.

Don't be discouraged I think this is a nice feature. We didn't have time for
testing yet.
 
> I dove through a couple of product briefs and datasheets and with the present
> set of switch drivers it should be possible to add port mirroring to the
> majority of drivers (datasheets are a must however):
> 
>  *  adm6996 - not supported

Why? Software or hardware?

>  *  ar8216

I think I have a board with this switch (arv7518pw) and I'll do my best to test
it next week.

Luka
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