The datasheet has insufficient detail, and yet the switch seems enormously capable, at least in theory. The kind of numbers under load I've seen thus far (ranging from .9ms to 170ms) suggest port starvation.

http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366s_8366sr_datasheet_vpre-1.4_20071022.pdf

In looking over an earlier datasheet, for an earlier revision of this switch chip, the details for possibly enabling port mirroring (so as to be able to look at streams using an external monitoring box), as well as twiddling with fair queuing (to address the port starvation issue) are there, in sections 8.10, and 8.13.

http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366_8369_datasheet_1-1.pdf

They are not in the later datasheet, but the features are at least, mentioned there.

I'm happy. Nothing left to do but code it up and see what happens.
That's the fun part.


 

 
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