High Performance Two Port 10/100 Managed Ethernet Switch with 32-Bit Non-PCI CPU Interface

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Note: When specifying Port 0 as the destination port, the VID will be set to 0. A VID of 0 is normally considered a priority tagged packet. Such a packet will be filtered if Admit Only VLAN is set on the host CPU port. Either avoid setting Admit Only VLAN on the host CPU port or set an unused bit in the VID field.

Note: The maximum size tagged packet that can normally be sent into a switch port (from the Host MAC) is 1522 bytes. Since the special tag consumes four bytes of the packet length, the outgoing packet is limited to 1518 bytes, even if it contains a regular VLAN tag as part of the packet data. If a larger outgoing packet is required, the Jumbo2K bit in the Port x MAC Receive Configuration Register (MAC_RX_CFG_x) of Port 0 should be set.

6.4.10.2Packets to the Host CPU

The Buffer Manager Egress Port Type Register (BM_EGRSS_PORT_TYPE) configures the switch to add the special VLAN tag in packets to the host CPU as a source port indicator. A setting of 11b should be used only on the port that is connected to the host CPU (typically Port 0). Other settings can be used on the normal network ports as needed.

The special VLAN tag is a normal VLAN tag where bits 0 and 1 of the VID field specify the source port (0, 1, or 2).

Upon egress from the host CPU port, the special tag is added. If a regular VLAN tag already exists, it is not deleted. Instead it will follow the special tag.

Note: Since the special tag adds four bytes to the length of the packet, it is possible for a normally tagged, maximum size, incoming packet to become 1526 bytes in length. In order for the Host MAC to receive this length packet without indicating a length error, the Host MAC VLAN2 Tag Register (HMAC_VLAN2) in the Host MAC should be set to 8100h and the Host MAC VLAN1 Tag Register (HMAC_VLAN1) should be set to a value other than 8100h. This configuration will allow frames up to 1538 bytes in length to be received.

Note: Since the special tag adds four bytes to the length of the packet, it is possible for a normally tagged, maximum size, incoming jumbo packet to become 2052 bytes in length. This packet will be received by the Host MAC with the following conditions:

„The receive status will indicate Frame Too Long

„Up to four bytes of the end of packet may be truncated (the maximum receive length at the Host MAC is 2048).

6.4.11Counters

A counter is maintained per port that contains the number of MAC address that were not learned or were overwritten by a different address due to MAC Address Table space limitations. These counters are accessible via the following registers:

„Switch Engine Port 0 Learn Discard Count Register (SWE_LRN_DISCRD_CNT_MII)

„Switch Engine Port 1 Learn Discard Count Register (SWE_LRN_DISCRD_CNT_1)

„Switch Engine Port 2 Learn Discard Count Register (SWE_LRN_DISCRD_CNT_2)

A counter is maintained per port that contains the number of packets filtered at ingress. This count includes packets filtered due to broadcast throttling, but does not include packets dropped due to ingress rate limiting. These counters are accessible via the following registers:

„Switch Engine Port 0 Ingress Filtered Count Register (SWE_FILTERED_CNT_MII)

„Switch Engine Port 1 Ingress Filtered Count Register (SWE_FILTERED_CNT_1)

„Switch Engine Port 2 Ingress Filtered Count Register (SWE_FILTERED_CNT_2)

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