On the turris omnia WAN is (by default) on a physically different interface not part of the switch, so no no leakage to the WAN interface, no idea about the other mvebu platforms though.
Accoding to:
https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org&q=subject:"Re\%3A+Re\%3A+\[PATCH+22.03\]+mvebu\%3A+cortexa9\%3A+disable+devices+using+broken+mv88e6176+switch"&o=newest
the fixes might already be identified:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209487
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Seems like this belongs in the "known issues" in the release notes page (https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/notes-22.03.3#known_issues)
Once the fix is committed, the bind packages should reappear in a few days.
Not worthwhile to put into permanent "known issues".
(Build errors surface every now and then. And this is not directly related to 22.03.3)
EDIT:
I pushed the proposed fix to both master and 22.03.
Buildbot will churn new "bind" packages in 1-3 days (for all target architectures).
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it would be unfortunate if wrt-mvebu series supprt were dropped by openwrt. this fix was first reported for linux almost a year ago. i hope that openwrt will catch up....
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I doubt they drop it. But from what I read this is a serious problem in the current version. An advice on what to do for the owners of affected devices would be highly appreciated.
Also, it seems this is not a generall issue and only occuring in some configurations. So a how-to to describe how to find out if a device is affected would be helpfull.
I will try to set up a AVM Fritzbox 4040 this evening as a spare device to replace my WRT3200ACM if neccessary.
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Disappointing not to see all the MT76 bugfixes from November and December in this release.
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Congrats on the release. Using master snapshots with kernel 5.15 on my WRT32X for obvious reasons, running fast and stable and switch is fixed from my testing. @ne20002 use a master snapshot since it's fixed on kernel 5.15, 3 week uptime on mine.
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OpenWrt has always been stable on my WRT3200ACM. 
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I'm confused. What does this mean for the WRT3200? That the latest update cannot be applied?
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@waynea i would assume that the bugfix from 5.15 would be backported and then a new 22.03 release would be created.
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I've noticed with 22.03.3 that ingress latency has greatly increased with SQM. Can others please check as well?
Regarding the mvebu switch issue for clarity:
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If a user only used wireless connections with nothing plugged into LAN ports, would the issue cause any negative affects?
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If a user used mostly wireless connections, but has only 1 device plugged into a LAN port, would there be any negative affects in this scenario?
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Or would there only be negative affects for users who have multiple devices plugged into LAN ports?
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Is there any negative affect on WAN port?
This issue is clearly above my level of understanding and I think that some clarification would benefit the users who are affected by this. Thank you.
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Will Linksys WRT3200ACM be ever supported again by OpenWRT or is it death sentence?
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Issue is already addressed by 5.15, so no, not the death knell.
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So it looks pretty much that the mvebu "lock-out" will only be transient, as kernel 5.15 does not appear to have that issue. So either wait for 5.15 to hit stable, or:
a) switch to main snapshots of openwrt, which IIRC already use 5.15 kernels
b) help testing and back-porting the patches required to make mvebu work as expected under 5.10 kernels.
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Thanks a lot for the hope good man!
I take that to mean ping times during downloads? If so, I think they do jump higher than before, but I'm not absolutely sure. Starting at about 28, they get up into the upper 70s for a while, where I think before it would have been 50 at the highest. Uploads stay low.
yup - just moved to snapshot 5.15, working. i'm sure my backporting skill is minimal but i'd be happy to test for others. thanks.
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No
No (edit: well, probably not)
Yes
No
tl;dr either use 22.03.2 where the switch is acting as a hub, not good but won't kill your network. Or move up to master snapshot where it's fixed, kernel 5.15 is rock solid been running it on my WRT32X for weeks.
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Where is that "master snapshot" that one might install it? Please advise.