Hmm... it does clarify it some :) For defaults, wouldn't it be also better to have the "eth 1 / switch port 0" as tagged as default?
Sami Olmari On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Ben Franske <ben.li...@franske.com> wrote: > Sami, > I'm a very power user of OpenWRT and also a light developer of it. I happen > to have one of the Archer C7 v2 units myself. I agree there are definitely > some bugs there but the switch config is not something we can do much about > I don't think. I agree it's quite different than other devices but that is > because of the way the hardware is built and not because of OpenWRT. Once > you actually figure out the switch configuration it's pretty flexible, just > different than what you would expect. Because it's different than many > devices the LuCI interface for configuring it is misleading and confusing. I > find it less confusing to work with it in the /etc/config/network text file > configuration. When I get some time I hope to do a better job of documenting > it. You can definitely do VLANs though, in fact two VLANs are part of the > default OpenWRT config on this device. > > Basically, it is a seven port switch. Each of the five physical Ethernet > ports (WAN, LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, LAN4) are represented and it has TWO CPU > ports. A table showing the relationship of the switch ports to the physical > and CPU ports is on the wiki at > <http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500> > > The default configuration is to use VLAN1 to carry the LAN traffic > (connecting eth1 with LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, and LAN4) and VLAN2 to carry the WAN > traffic (connecting eth0 with WAN). You can add extra VLANs if you so desire > and change eth1 (switch port 0) to a tagged port. In this way it will > operate just like any other OpenWRT controlled switch. The key difference is > that you must always reserve one VLAN for connecting the WAN port (switch > port 1) to the eth0 port (switch port 6). > > Hope this helps clarify! > > -Ben > > > On 11/29/2014 6:11 PM, Sami Olmari wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I'd like to donate an TP-Link Archer C7 v2 to keep for willing OpenWrt >> developer in exchange for (trying to) make it more bugfree. There is >> at least few known bugs, https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18362 and >> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18363 >> >> Then there is also matter of switch config which kinda doesn't make >> any sense, nor editing it works as expected (too many ports, no sane >> CPU port, can't do VLANs essentially). >> >> Anyone interested? >> >> Sami Olmari >> _______________________________________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel