switch chip

[winet]

informations about RB750GL’s switch chip are different, from the wiki, it says Atheros8327, and from the routerboard.com’s brochure, it says Atheros AR7242. which one is the correct one, or are they the same?

the wiki’s Switch Chip Features page isn’t pretty much helpful yet, if anyone could add comparison for RB250GS switch chip. AR7241 switch chip too if possible (for the new RB750UP). i’m gonna need to add a new manageable switch again soon(i got RB250GS already, so far so good), but haven’t decided which one i’m gonna take, the new RB750UP as POE switch, is very tempting anyway .

[tjc]

The Atheros AR7242 listed in the PDF is the CPU not the switch chip. If you look at the board picture in the User Guide here http://routerboard.com/pdf/355/rb750gl-ug.pdf you can see both chips, with the AR8327 being the one closer to the ports.

[winet]

@tjc

The Atheros AR7242 listed in the PDF is the CPU not the switch chip. If you look at the board picture in the User Guide here http://routerboard.com/pdf/355/rb750gl-ug.pdf you can see both chips, with the AR8327 being the one closer to the ports.

i see, i check the picture as you told me
how about RB250GS?

edit: nevermind. the brochure says, AR8316, i didn’t notice it earlier.

however, based on the switch chip comparison chart, is that mean RB750GL perform better than RB250GS ? because AR8327 could handle more rules.

[FIPTech]

Be careful, AR8327 cannot use VLAN ID, VLAN priority, New VLAN ID inside rules.

Cannot use as well leave-as-is, always-strip, add-if-missing in switch port setup.

So you can’t use this switch to convert acces ports to trunk, or anything related to VLAN manipulation like removing VLAN headers.


Seems like the AR83x7 is a low cost version of the AR83x6, where VLAN manipulation has been removed…


I’ve just bought five RB750GL and i’m not really happy to see that the switch has limited VLAN capabilities.