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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:56:15 +0200
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Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software
> switch doing L2 forwarding.
> 
> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working.
> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload,
> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing.

How is this different from net/bridge?
How is this different from openvswitch?