As there’s no internal switch on the Ethernet controllers to directly pass packets from one Gb port to another, is there a way to do this without a switch? If not do you have any idea what overhead will be needed to pass them back and forth?
He have no ready solution of a switch based on i.MX processor.
I only know that there are some solutions for router. For example OpenWrt does support i.MX6.
Here I found a common discussion regarding to Linux based switch:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1f2ss7/
However please note that i.MX series are more multimedia than networking processors.
For networking purposes we can recomend some another processor.
Something like this:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=P4080
Have a great day,
Victor
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