3550 Ethernet Controllers

[Jay Greenberg <groupstudylist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone know why the 3550 ports share ethernet controllers?  What
are the side-effects / benefits (?) of this?

#sh ver

blah...

Switch uptime is 4 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is
"flash:/c3550-i5q3l2-mz.121-9.EA1c/c3550-i5q3l2-mz.121-9.EA
1c.bin"

blah...

Running Layer2/3 Switching Image

Ethernet-controller 1 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

Ethernet-controller 2 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

Ethernet-controller 3 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

Ethernet-controller 4 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

Ethernet-controller 5 has 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface

Ethernet-controller 6 has 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface
.
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