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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:01:11 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: add ACL entry to redirect
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> If I do this, I would have an L2 switch that relies on IP traffic
> passing through it.

Yes.

> Also, if I use ACLs to model dynamic FDB entries than I will need to "software age
> the ACLs... which is at least not ideal.

The bridge will do that for you.

> Andrew, thanks for all the advice given but I feel like I have to see if the firmware
> can be changed to better model the CPU traffic before adding a lot of hacks and
> pushing something with the current implementation.

Yes. I agree. If the firmware can change, great. If not, you might
have to do these hacks.

     Andrew