I build a mini-pc to use OpenWRT but only one ethernet port works. I made a diagram. How can I make other ports work?
You need to explain what is wrong with the port. Show the output of ifconfig -a as a start.
No pictures please.
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:BE:B4:08:A9:B3
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::62be:b4ff:fe08:a9b3/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: fd0d:9586:f845::1/60 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1404940 errors:0 dropped:5 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2339851 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:159619284 (152.2 MiB) TX bytes:3401658468 (3.1 GiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:BE:B4:08:A9:B3
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1384987 errors:0 dropped:14 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2173000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:173157622 (165.1 MiB) TX bytes:3192971204 (2.9 GiB)
Memory:80200000-802fffff
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:BE:B4:08:A9:B4
inet6 addr: fe80::62be:b4ff:fe08:a9b4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2337958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:780492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3418746550 (3.1 GiB) TX bytes:133262491 (127.0 MiB)
Memory:80000000-800fffff
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:BE:B4:08:A9:B5
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Memory:7fe00000-7fefffff
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:BE:B4:08:A9:B6
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5473 (5.3 KiB) TX bytes:19476 (19.0 KiB)
Memory:7fc00000-7fcfffff
ifb4eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E2:87:08:7C:E3:02
inet6 addr: fe80::e087:8ff:fe7c:e302/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:120338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:120338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:146732414 (139.9 MiB) TX bytes:146732414 (139.9 MiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:109282 (106.7 KiB) TX bytes:109282 (106.7 KiB)
pppoe-wan Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.30.18.12 P-t-P:212.57.0.165 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:2335637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1404448 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:3366323606 (3.1 GiB) TX bytes:154931637 (147.7 MiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C4:4B:D1:C0:02:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::c64b:d1ff:fec0:2ff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24575 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160333 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6381295 (6.0 MiB) TX bytes:194541307 (185.5 MiB)
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C4:4B:D1:C1:02:FF
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
I suppose you may need to manually add missing interfaces in Luci Network section. Name them as you want but select the appropriate ethX as an underlaying device. Select protocol DHCP or Static or whatever you need.
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Or simply create a bridge for all the LAN ports? On my miniPC, I've reassigned eth0 to wan/wan6 (I just like the numbering better), then created a bridge for all the rest of the ports in /etc/config/network:
config device
option name 'br-lan'
option type 'bridge'
list ports 'eth1'
list ports 'eth2'
list ports 'eth3'
config interface 'lan'
option device 'br-lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '10.1.3.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
config interface 'wan'
option device 'eth0'
option proto 'dhcp'
config interface 'wan6'
option device 'eth0'
option proto 'dhcpv6'
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If you want to use them as additional LAN ports, add eth2 and eth3 to the existing br-lan bridge. This simulates an unmanaged switch where all three of those ports can switch data between each other as well as to the router and the Internet.
On x86 only the first one or two Ethernet ports are configured automatically during the first boot.
Of course eth2 and eth3 could be used for guest networks, etc as well. The results of ifconfig show that the ports have drivers attached, but have not been configured.
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Normal x86 PC with multiple ports are not the same as those home routers on market, yours doesn't have built-in switch chip to help managing all those ports, so they are simply standalone ethernet ports, and you have to put them into same bridge to simulate the operations of switch (it will consume CPU power since there is no switch chip)
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It is a small amount of CPU power though, and the x86 will not have a problem switching LAN-LAN traffic at full gigabit speed.
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