BCM芯片L2 Ingress Packet处理流程

BCM芯片对unicastpacket处理流程：

对Multicast packet, 其基本流程与上面unicast相同，不同点在于匹配L2_ENTRY table后，根据L2_ENTRYL:L2MC_PTR指针返回1K的L2MC table，该table里面包含Port-bitmap以指示包应该转发的目的端口，但这些端口还是不是VLAN的成员还需要确定，如果都是，那么该报为known multicast pakcets, 否则为unknown multicastpacktes，其转发行为与L2_PFM值有关:

L2_PFM = 0, Allmulticast packets, flood to the VLAN

L2_PFM = 1, unknownmulticast packets are flood to the VLAN, known multicast packets are forwarded onlyto the ports included in port-bitmap

L2_PFM = 2, unknownmulticast packets are dropped, known multicast packets like L2_PFM = 1

 

         broadcastPacket更加容易了。SA learning后，直接转发到vlan的所有成员。