RB450G compiling the kernel

[Adrian Chadd]

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 at mail.ru> wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> I'm using the custom hints for RB450 without including other hint files.
> Maybe my mistake was in this.
> --
>
> вторник, 31 декабря 2013г., 21:57 +0400 от Adrian Chadd
> <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>
> Which kernel configuration file are you building with?
>
> -a
>
> 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