Understanding DSA on Netgear WAC104 and driver-level VLAN

[ahasbini]

Continuing the discussion from Mini tutorial for DSA network config:

I'm seeking some details or info on two main things:

• To understand the output of bridge monitor in hopes of finding why in some cases packets were lost (or dropped probably?).
• Whether driver-level VLANs work with DSA or not.

@ahasbini

I read Creating driver-level VLANs in the docs, would it still work with DSA? I tried it out by creating a VLAN br-lan.6 on my netgear wac104 dumb AP, and br-lan has all the LAN ports. The problem is that I would able to ping from the dumb AP through the VLAN to the gateway (x86_64 openwrt) and it would work, but when I try to ping the dumb AP from the gateway it doesn't work and suddenly it triggers something on the dumb AP and that also makes pinging from the dumb AP to gateway not to work anymore.

Below is a related topics I posted before:

Android device disconnects after fast roaming due to lost DHCP replies

I've been trying to diagnose this issue for a while now using tcpdump and logread with wireless.radio1.log_level='1'. The following is my setup: Main OpenWrt router: model: x86_64 DHCP/DNSmasq server, IPv4 only Firewall service enabled Has ethernet ports only OpenWrt 21.02.0 r16279-5cc0535800 Two Dumb OpenWrt WiFi AP: model: Netgear WAC104 Firewall service disabled DHCP/DNSmasq service disabled Hardware offloading disabled 802.11r enabled FT over air WPA2 PSK OpenWrt 21.02.3 r1655…