Re[2]: RB450G compiling the kernel

Anton felix_mail at mail.ru
Tue Dec 31 08:23:33 UTC 2013


 Adrian thanks!

I resolved the problem. There was need to add both options in hints file at the same time.

hints.argemdio.0.at="nexus0"
hints.argemdio.0.
....
hints.arge.0.at="nexus0"
hints.arge.0.
....
Понедельник, 30 декабря 2013, 11:38 -08:00 от Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>On 30 December 2013 03:52, Антон Петухов < felix_mail at 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 for 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


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