Hi Andrew, On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:41:46PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:18:43PM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote: > > Send a packet with a specific destination MAC, make sure it was learned > > on the ingress port and then aged-out. > > It would be interesting to show the hardware actually uses the FDB, > not just learns it. Send some packets back, and ensure they go out the > intended port. Also, check they don't go out a third port, i.e. make > sure the hardware is not flooding. Once it has aged-out, then test is > is flooding out all ports.
Good idea. We can actually do that with only two ports. Disable flooding on port A, check packets with DMAC A don't egress the port. Inject a packet with SMAC A through port A, check packets with DMAC A egress the port.
