Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

Hi csaba, Frederic

The current discion on the "Basic Bridge" on RARE-usres has reminded
me of a feature that we should implement to increase the user
experience.

Currently, one has to specify the physical port ID in the
"export-port" statement, which is a major problem for people who are
not really familiar with Tofino inernals. IMHO, there is no reason at
all to use the physical port there. Why not simply use the much
friendlier "port/channel" (e.g. "1/0") identifier to directly address
the ports on the device's front panel?  bf_forwarder can easily
translate that into the physical port ID by a lookup in the
$PORT_STR_INFO table.

This would require to change the parser in freerouter as well as the
format of the message passed to bf_forwarder.

-- 
Alex