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

[Mitar]

Hi!

Sadly I do not know more than what I saw when skimming through the code
looking for interesting bits. But it looks like it does not need
anything more.

(Like the fact that they are using PHP for AirOS web interface.)


Mitar

> 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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