Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 4 Jan 2014 17:29:16 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Anton <felix_mail@mail.ru>
Cc:        "\\freebsd-mips@freebsd.org\\" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[4]: RB450G compiling the kernel
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmomrkYKqmUq=B_b6FQ4Qn60Lf0oR%2Bjy0CnyKj-A6w3CVGQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1388826328.503909163@f428.i.mail.ru>
References:  <1388404360.131024714@f310.i.mail.ru> <1388478201.16007730@f292.i.mail.ru> <CAJ-VmonXYa8tPy3RXB-HgBM4-Ob0gkct%2BpUXMdaNsKgrV%2BjZ8g@mail.gmail.com> <1388826328.503909163@f428.i.mail.ru>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Right. Well, let's try and figure out exactly what we should commit to
freebsd-head so we have a known working kernel config + hints for the
RB450.

Thanks!


-a


On 4 January 2014 01:05, Anton <felix_mail@mail.ru> wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> I'm using the custom hints for RB450 without including other hint files.
> Maybe my mistake was in this.
> --
>
> =D7=D4=CF=D2=CE=C9=CB, 31 =C4=C5=CB=C1=C2=D2=D1 2013=C7., 21:57 +0400 =CF=
=D4 Adrian Chadd
> <adrian@freebsd.org>:
>
> Which kernel configuration file are you building with?
>
> -a
>
> On 31 December 2013 00:23, Anton < felix_mail@mail.ru > wrote:
>> Adrian thanks!
>>
>> I resolved the problem. There was need to add both options in hints file
>> at
>> the same time.
>>
>> hints.argemdio.0.at=3D"nexus0"
>> hints.argemdio.0.
>> ....
>> hints.arge.0.at=3D"nexus0"
>> hints.arge.0.
>> ....
>>
>> =F0=CF=CE=C5=C4=C5=CC=D8=CE=C9=CB, 30 =C4=C5=CB=C1=C2=D2=D1 2013, 11:38 =
-08:00 =CF=D4 Adrian Chadd
>> < adrian@freebsd.org >:
>>
>> On 30 December 2013 03:52, =E1=CE=D4=CF=CE =F0=C5=D4=D5=C8=CF=D7 < felix=
_mail@mail.ru > wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Can you help me? How can I use AR7161 + AR8316 as two interfaces
>>> available
>>> to the kernel? Etherswitch is very good solution, but he's black box fo=
r
>>> me.
>>> If I try to compile kernel with switch - all is Ok, but in this case
>>> system
>>> have only one arge1.
>>> I need to route traffic between arge0 and arge1 ports... How, how can I
>>> do
>>> it? :)
>>
>> Well, it depends on how it's wired up.
>>
>> The AR8316 (and other atheros switches) have an option to peel off one
>> of the ports as a dedicated PHY port, for situations where you have
>> two MACs on the SoC and you want to have a WAN port and multiple LAN
>> ports.
>>
>> Theres three ways to do it:
>>
>> * have one MAC port, map all switch ports to it, then peel off lan/wan
>> via VLAN ids
>> * have two MAC ports, have one port dedicated as a pass-through PHY
>> for the WAN port and the rest be switch ports for the LAN (vlan or
>> otherwise)
>> * a hybrid - have two MAC ports, and just map them using vlan ids or
>> per-port vlans as required.
>>
>> So it boils down to whether the RB450G wires both arge interfaces to
>> the switch. If so, you can peel off a dedicated WAN PHY/port by
>> configuring up the 'phy4cpu' option in the hints file. Otherwise it's
>> vlans all the way down.
>>
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anton



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAJ-VmomrkYKqmUq=B_b6FQ4Qn60Lf0oR%2Bjy0CnyKj-A6w3CVGQ>