[mesh-dev] Physical link state detection with an integrated switch

[Marc Juul]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Writing notdhcp has been much more of a rabbit hole than expected. But!
> We
> > want to be able to query switch port link status for purposes of the GUI
> > anyway and now we know that this is currently impossible (short of
> allowing
> > the running of arbitrary commands from the gui). I think once we've
> gotten
> > all this working I'll go back and move the switch status polling code
> over
> > to a fork of netifd and then make notdhcp use ubus to listen for the link
> > state changes.
>
> One interesting addition I found in AirOS firmware is also a way to dump
> MAC addresses from the switch:
>
>
> https://github.com/ninuxorg/openwrt-modified-by-ubiquiti/compare/0f06f302caa1d53bf0e1550aaadf738166c53c26...master#diff-1d6f4417e7c8319efc18e3cc024e9502
>
> Might be useful for you together with just port status.
>

That is indeed an interesting feature. Thanks!
It looks like it doesn't require any kernel/driver changes. Is that true?

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marc/juul
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