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973

I'll look into this and revert.

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What is the purpose of partition1MTD & partition2MTD ? Also, what is label offset?

Depending on which partition EA9500 boots off, it will change the partition layout:

bootpartition=0

mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "boot"
mtd1: 00100000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd2: 00080000 00020000 "devinfo"
mtd3: 01d00000 00020000 "firmware" <= Boot partition
mtd4: 003fffe4 00020000 "linux"
mtd5: 01900000 00020000 "ubi"
mtd6: 01d00000 00020000 "backup"
mtd7: 02e00000 00020000 "system"

bootpartition=1

mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "boot"
mtd1: 00100000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd2: 00080000 00020000 "devinfo"
mtd3: 01d00000 00020000 "backup"
mtd4: 01d00000 00020000 "firmware" <= Boot partition
mtd5: 003fffe4 00020000 "linux"
mtd6: 01900000 00020000 "ubi"
mtd7: 02e00000 00020000 "system"

This is what I have so far. Let me know this is correct.

974

I seems correct, but only @stangri could confirm that. :slight_smile:
Would you mind posting it here?

975

All three are used to get partition details you can see in WebUI. Offset is how many bytes to skip when trying to read the Linux kernel information from the partition (using dd).

976

Does DSA support switch configuration and VLANs yet?

977

DSA is matured enough to do all that. But, the bcm53xx needs to first moved to DSA and this router has it's quirks.

I think OpenWrt will benefit from moving every platform to DSA.

978

Uploaded new build with DSA driver. There has been a lot of fixes to DSA driver. Let me know port to port connectivity has been resolved, throughput etc. I've tested this on my router and it won't brick for sure. As always make sure to factory reset while upgrading.

979

Thank you!

980

Can someone test the latest snapshot? Please note I can't guarantee it's going to work, thus testing request.

https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/bcm53xx/generic/

981

It works when you are connected to 4,7,8 ports. When connected to 1,2,3,5,6 - I receive no ip address.

When I change the config and add 1,2,3,5,6 - all ports work.

config device
        option name 'br-lan'
        option type 'bridge'
        list ports 'lan4'
        list ports 'lan7'
        list ports 'lan8'
        list ports 'extsw'
        list ports 'lan1'
        list ports 'lan2'
        list ports 'lan3'
        list ports 'lan5'
        list ports 'lan6'
982

I'll give it a try this weekend.

Thank you both for still supporting the hardware

983

Thanks @npcomplete! One more test request: do you need extsw in your config? Can you try dropping it and checking if ports still work?

984

`extsw' is needed in the config. Without it the ports hanging off it don't work.

985

Thanks, fixed bcm53xx: bridge all LAN ports on Linksys EA9500

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986

Thanks for update, now the 8 ports are online.

note: the led on ports 3,4 aren't on, others (1,2,5,6,7,8) are when connected.

987

@npcomplete

Can you try this:
While there's no extsw on the 02_network file.

ip link set up extsw
service network restart

See if the external switchports start working?

988

Hi there, Can someone please test the following scenario? Best to start by disconnecting the devices and rebooting the ea9500:

  1. Turn off the DHCP server on the ea9500 or set up a new vlan and add two ports from any of lan1,2,3,5,6, pvid untagged. Basically set it up as though the two ports are a dumb switch.

  2. Connect one of those two ports to another device running a DHCP server and connect the other to a client making DHCP requests.

  3. Observe. Does the client get an IP from that DHCP server? If any issues, run tcpdump on extsw.

This test is to see if unknown packets can be successfully resent back through the interface they came from (ext_sw in this case) to go to the DHCP server.

ref

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989

Only DSA-tagged frames will appear on the extsw interface. You should run tcpdump on the bridge interface instead.

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990

Better yet, you can see if the issue's still there on 5.15 by compiling this branch.

Enable using test kernel option on the menuconfig.

The prebuilt image is here, for everyone to try it.

@npcomplete @rmilecki

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991

I tried the latest snapshot.

It seemed to work with all ports initially but after a reboot, it crapped itself and port connectivity was inconsistent and I couldnt get my WAN IP back at all.

Took me 2 hours to revert back to the August release which works.

I will have another crack at it when I have a few hours to play with.

992

I tried this and it doesn't work. Client connected on LAN1 doesn't get IP when extsw is not part of the bridge. I'll try your pre-built image