Is TP-Link Archer C7 v5 DSA network configuration compatible?

[nicku]

I have two TP-Link Archer C7 APs: one v2, one v5. I have set up four other APs with my three VLANs successfully using DSA. Is it possible to configure these two APs using DSA? If not, is anyone working on making them DSA compatible? My attempts to use the switch configuration have failed so far. I find network configuration with OpenWrt rather more inscrutable compared with a big system using NetworkManager; I hope to understand it all much better as I try to implement my little home project.

[ncompact]

At the moment, both the TP-Link Archer C7 v2 and v5 do not support DSA. They are still based on the legacy swconfig system, so VLAN configuration needs to be done using swconfig rather than the newer DSA-style bridge VLAN filtering.

Because of this, configurations that work on DSA-based devices won’t translate directly to these models. You’ll need to adapt your setup accordingly for swconfig.

example:

Help setting up VLANs on a TP-Link Archer A7 v5

I tried following a few tutorials, but many cover the "old" way, and the newer tutorials I've found seem to be very hardware specific and I haven't found one that matches (or even comes close) to my devices' hardware. Here's what my initial plan is, but I'm open to suggestions. There are a few concepts of VLANs that I do not fully comprehend. I think I'm looking at 3 VLANs. One for a wired connection for a server, one for IoT devices on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, and one for "normal" connect…

extend a guest wifi on second access point with OpenWrt using VLANs

[_bernd]

Maybe share your failed attempts and maybe we can help you... I have the v5 also still in use.

[slh]

Patchsets for DSA on ath79 basically exist already, it did work in the past, but was broken again last time it was attempted (maybe it still is, maybe it got fixed mainline, needs new checking). Once that is sorted, the migration itself will be massive, due to the sheer number of (very different, a decade worth of SOC development) devices. It's possible, almost in reach - but in need of a real push and major efforts.