[Ronja] switch with RONJA

Bruce M Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Mon Feb 25 04:04:29 GMT 2008


Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> I'm wary of RRCP -- it seems that it's completely disabled on most new 
> hardware, and even when it hasn't been fused out, soldering pullups to 
> TQFP packages is a pain in the behind.

Actually what's more worrying about RRCP switch ASICs is the buggy VLAN 
support, and the lack of 802.1d spanning tree support; there is a 
proprietary Realtek loop detection protocol, but why couldn't they just 
have done 802.1d? But I drift off topic.

later
BMS



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