2 Gbps WAN/LAN NAT Routing on ramips MT7621 devices

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I would appreciate it! Thank you!

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The image for Netgear WAX202 is up.
@keshav @fubag

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thank you!

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Has a pull request been created to include this modification in the next version?

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Not yet, it's only there for snapshot for now.

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The pull request is applied to the master branch!

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Excellent. I'm excited to see this in a release.

Thank you so much for your work.

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Any plans/real chance for backport to 22.03?

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Usually new features are not backported but since this is a devicetree only change, it may find its way to the current releases. It's all up to @hauke.

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If it fixes some issue... Do we have an opened issue for this topic?

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I always thought that it was 1000/1000. So now I'm wondering, how about other mediatek or qualcomm SoCs? Are they 1000/1000 or 500/500?

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Hello arinc9,
If I understand correctly, all qualified MT7621 snapshots as of August 21, 2022 will contain your patch now?

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That sounds correct, yes!

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Thank-you.

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Hello @arinc9,
I'm trying your patch for device Keenetic Giga 3 (wikidevi). But so far I don't have a very powerful CPU on which the ipefr3 -c localhost --bidir utility would show at least 2 Gbps.

After applying this patch, I noticed that the protocol type of the ports has changed from MII to Twisted Pair:

root@ZKG:/# ethtool lan1
Settings for lan1:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 3
        Transceiver: external
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Link detected: yes

root@ZKG:/# ethtool wan
Settings for wan:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 4
        Transceiver: external
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                               drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
        Link detected: yes

Is this normal? And what does it say?

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Why do you do this? Does the wan port not work after the changes? Also, why do you connect to localhost for speed test?

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WAN port is work.

So I just tested the capabilities of my computer: ipefr3 -c localhost --bidir -t 15

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Ok, I’ve never checked the output of ethtool so I don’t know what to tell you. If wan port works, I don’t see a problem.

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when I use these devices as access points
I map the wan port back to the br-lan
so in this mode is the cpu now needed
to move traffic between wan and lan ports
or will it reattach it back to the switch ?

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Yes, frames will go through the CPU for wan port.

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