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	✔	·	·
Mirroring	✔	✔	✔
Link Aggregation	✔	·	·
IGMP/MLD Snooping	✔	·	·
Spanning Tree Protocol	✔	✔	✔
Shared Filter Blocks	✔	·	·
Basic Ingress QoS	✔	✔	✔
Port Policer	✔	✔	✔
ACL Policer	✔	✔	✔
PSFP Policer	✔	✔	✔
Strict and DWRR scheduling	✔	✔	✔
Time-Aware Scheduling	✔	✔	·
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)	✔	·	·
Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP)	✔	·	·
Connectivity Fault Management	✔	·	·
Precision Time Protocol (PTP)	✔	✔	·
L3 Unicast Routing	·	✔	✔

Feature

LAN966x Support

Sparx5 Support

LAN969x Support

Priority Flow Control

✔

Mirroring

✔

Link Aggregation

✔

IGMP/MLD Snooping

✔