For anyone who is interested, VLAN support on the MX65 is now working correctly across all 12 ports and can be configured using the recently added config bridge-vlan section (PR). This can be done in the network->interfaces section
Edit: I had previously posted incorrect information about how to set up the bridge that would not survive reboots. This version is correct.
In the Network->Interfaces section, click on the devices tab. At the bottom; Add device configuration... Create a new device , type Bridge device. Give it a name (I used switch0) and add the lan/wan ports you want to be in it.Screenshot
Then go to the Bridge Vlan filtering tab. Tick "Enable VLAN filterering". Click Add under VLAN ID and add the desired VLAN. You may want to first test with VID 1, PVID egress untagged. If you want the MX65 to participate in the VLAN you need to tick "Local" as well. Once finished click save once. If the window does not disappear, do not click save again. Click dismiss, then refresh the browser. Also do not click save & apply. Screenshot
Go back to the Interfaces tab. Remove all ports that were set up in switch0 from br-wan and br-lan. It may be faster in this case to delete both br-wan an br-lan.
If you need to participate in a VLAN you need to add configuration for the local interface. Click Add new interface... and select Software VLAN: "brx.VID" where VID is the VLAN you want to use. If you can't see this then refresh the browser and it will appear. Set up the interface however it will be used, DHCP server/client, firewall zone, etc. Don't tick bridge interfaces unless you have added USB wireless and want to use it on this VLAN.
You should have something like the below screenshot. In this case I have set up a DHCP client on vlan1 and a DHCP server on vlan10. Once set up click save & apply and hopefully it will now be configured successfully. You should also reboot and confirm the settings are maintainedScreenshot
luci is currently a bit flaky so check at each stage the settings are being added to "unsaved settings". You may encounter settings disappearing on the "Bridge VLAN filtering" tab if you return to it, or after adding the vlan there is no software vlan interface available in the interfaces list. If this happens then refresh the browser and they should appear. Also if you make a mistake and lock yourself out, the settings should be reversed after 90 seconds.
Attached here is the image I am using for the MX65 which has various applications installed. You can use this for the usb image. This is still all for testing only and subject to change. Of particular interest is bridging and use of VLANs over all three switches (wan1-2,lan3-7,lan8-12) and trunks attached to the lan ports(lan3-10).
Thanks for your effort! successfully built and flashed my MX65 yesterday! now on to figuring out what Openwrt can do
Only one problem, when I try to install other modules it complains and says that the build is different. Is that only going to get solved when the code is merged in the main repo? For now I should be alright, but if in the future will need to add modules - the whole recompilation process is long and tedious, would be nice to add those in the interface
Hi again I'm still having issues with my MX64 and can't boot into telnet has there been any update or has anyone found a solution. and can someone show me how to connect serial to the mx64 on stock firmware because I can't get it to work.
Yes, vlans etc working fine though a bit tricky with luci. See my earlier post
The SGMII interface is brought up by the modified u-boot. Just to note, the QCA switches are only 1G. I wasn't able to get > 1G between the b53 switch and bgmac.
This isn't really supportable currently since all other links (the QCA switch ports) will first be passed via the CPU port, which is 1G, for processing. I have looked at alternatives like bonding two links with one attached to each qca switch, but it is somewhat fiddly to set up and I'm not sure it can work anyway. I do have bonding configured off two ports but limited to 1G. I also had issues with luci-app-bonding and the bridge config.
For setting up a switch you can follow this post or I can send you a basic config. For PoE there is no config needed.
You could use mwan3 to achieve much/all of what is mentioned. Just getting speeds >1G is the difficult part.
Yes Openwrt doesn't change this functionality, but not all PoE supplies are able to work (eg an MX65 can't power another MX65, but an MX68 can power an MX65). When it does work, the other port can also be used to power a third device.
Could someone help me with getting my MX64 into diagnostics mode? Holding down the reset button has not resulted in a white flashing light. The only color it has changed to has been purple, and that goes away after releasing the button.
Hi All, having some troubles flashing my MX64 and wondering if anyone can help.
I have the A0 version and have booted it in to diag mode and run the commands successfully. I built the images myself with no issues and have the A0 version on a 4gb FAT formatted USB stick.
After running the commands, I pull the plug, insert the USB stick and hold the reset button while plugging the power back in and after a few seconds I get an alternating orange and white LED and release. After about 30 seconds I get the rainbow LED and I cant ping the router on 192.168.1.1 so I am not able to SCP or SSH in to complete the next steps.
After that if I unplug everything, I am able to boot back in to diag mode or do a factory reset but doesn't look like its booting off the USB stick at any point.
I have a USB to RS232 adapter on its way in case I need it, but does anyone have any tips I could try?
TIA
EDIT: Have found that after rebooting it reverts back to my previous IP of 192.168.0.1 and displays the default meraki page too.
Is the file name exactly openwrt-bcm5862x-generic-meraki_mx64a0-initramfs-kernel.bin? Did you check the SHA of the USB image matches the compiled one? And does the USB have an LED to indicate activity, ie that the file is being read?
Avoid the rainbow LED - turn off the device as soon as you see it - and attaching the device to the internet - it may update - until you get it working
Thanks for that, filename is correct and SHA matches between build file and file on USB stick. Stick does have a status LED that does flash a little when its booting.
Just wondering, when holding the reset button on power up, I get alternating white/orange LED's as soon as power is up and release? If I continue to hold it goes back in to diag mode. If I release after the first, the USB indicator light flashed a little and then after about a minute or so it will go to rainbow LED. The router is not connected to the internet at all also, plugged direct from a laptop to port 1 on the switch, nothing on the WAN port.
Yes, just release when you see that first alternating pattern. It's just an indicator that an attempt will be made to boot from USB. In your case it's then failed and then reverted to boot the stock kernel, hence keeping reset held at this point goes back to the diagnostic OS.
Do you have another USB stick to try with? Also are you using a DOS partition table and not GPT?
