How to tell whether device has network switch ports (DSA vs swconfig)?

[Bill]

Have you seen this Thread? Perhaps someone has posted something there that will stimulate your pursuit.

Mini tutorial for DSA network config

Update from 2021-05-31: Option ifname was renamed to device This tutorial is valid for 21.02-rc2 (or newer) and recent snapshots Introduction DSA stands for Distributed Switch Architecture and is Linux kernel subsystem for network switches. It's an upstream replacement for OpenWrt's swconfig framework and many new routers use DSA drivers instead of swconfig drivers. In DSA each switch port is a separated Linux interface. It means ip / ifconfig command will show interfaces like lan1, lan2, w…