1. Networking Overview

The different switch chips have different hardware features, and the software provided with the switch may implement a subset of these features, so here is an overview of what is provided for the different platforms:

Feature LAN966x Support Sparx5 Support LAN969x Support

Priority Flow Control

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Mirroring

✔

✔

✔

Link Aggregation

✔

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IGMP/MLD Snooping

✔

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·

Spanning Tree Protocol

✔

✔

✔

Shared Filter Blocks

✔

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·

Basic Ingress QoS

✔

✔

✔

Port Policer

✔

✔

✔

ACL Policer

✔

✔

✔

PSFP Policer

✔

✔

✔

Strict and DWRR scheduling

✔

✔

✔

Time-Aware Scheduling

✔

✔

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Frame Preemption

✔

✔

✔

Port Shaping

✔

✔

✔

Priority Shaping

✔

✔

✔

Basic Egress VLAN Tagging

✔

✔

✔

VLAN tagging

✔

✔

✔

Per Stream Filtering and Policing (PSFP)

✔

✔

✔

Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability (FRER)

✔

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·

Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP)

✔

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·

Connectivity Fault Management

✔

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·

Precision Time Protocol (PTP)

✔

✔

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