[debian-non-standard] connection problems to wl500gP

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Tomasz Orłowski schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski napisał(a):
>> By default, all LAN ports are enabled.
> 
> I had a different default settings after my first boot of your
> system+kernel.
> I had eth0 and eth0.1 configured, only LAN ports were working and
> "robocfg show" gave this output
> 
> asus-debian:~/robocfg# ./robocfg show
> Switch: enabled
> Port 0(W):  DOWN enabled stp: none vlan: 1 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Port 1(4):  10HD enabled stp: none vlan: 0 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Port 2(3):  DOWN enabled stp: none vlan: 0 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Port 3(2):  DOWN enabled stp: none vlan: 0 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Port 4(1):  DOWN enabled stp: none vlan: 0 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Port 5(C): 100FD enabled stp: none vlan: 0 mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> VLANs: BCM5325/535x enabled mac_check mac_hash
> vlan0: 1 2 3 4 5u
> vlan1: 0 5u
> 
> ...so robocfg returns good settings. vlan0 for LAN ports and vlan1 for
> WAN.
> But I think eth0 should be up but not configured because according to
> this link...
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtNVRAM#head-95280771dd53dfa34aa45b2bea4f20c06f366cb2
> ...it represents whole interface.
> 
> So shouldn't I have:
> eth0 up and not configured
> eth0.0 up and configured representing WAN port
> eth0.1 up and configured representing LAN port

It depends on how you want to use it.

If you don't need separate interfaces, don't configure VLANs, and enable 
a switch for all five interfaces (which would be eth0).

If you want five separate interfaces, configure VLANs for five ports.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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