Re[4]: RB450G compiling the kernel

[Anton]

Adrian,
I'm using the custom hints for RB450 without including other hint files. Maybe my mistake was in this.
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вторник, 31 декабря 2013г., 21:57 +0400 от Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
Which kernel configuration file are you building with?
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On 31 December 2013 00:23, Anton < felix_mail at 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="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