Qualcomm QCA9563 SOC in GL-AR750S package.


On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 00:12 Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a theory about why it didn't work on your device. Its what I
> expected would happen and why I didn't suggest what Russell did to just
> loop one LAN port to another. I think its due to the architecture.
>
> What make and model is your switch/router?
>
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 2:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It seems that in my case - looping LAN1 with LAN2 and sending/receiving
> > WAN<-->WLAN3 traffic leads to no visible traffic degradation. That
> > probably mean
> > that I failed to create lan loop.
> >
> > The lights were "kind of" busy on LAN1 <--> LAN2, but the wlan3 and
> > upstream WAN
> > are slow enough to observe any effect on that traffic.
> >
> > I will try to gather together 8+ switches when I get home after the New
> > Year.
> > With that I may be able to observe some traffic pattern change when
> > crossing
> > switching depth 7.
> >
> > > The router/switch looks this way:
> > > - WAN (eth0)
> > >     +- LAN1 (eth1)
> > >     +- LAN2 (eth2)
> > >     +- WLAN3 (wlan0)
> > > The router is running openWrt.
> > >
> >
> > Tomas
> >
> > On Wed, 2019-12-25 at 09:15 -0800, Mike C. wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I happened to have a netgear FS105 nearby. Plugging in a laptop to a
> > switch
> > > > port, and plugging a patch cable between two other switch ports and
> > pinging
> > > > a random ip address from the laptop set off the broadcast storm.
> > Running
> > > > tcpdump from the laptop showed a bunch of "MPCP, Opcode Pause, length
> > 46"
> > > > packets. Unplugging the loop, the packets stop immediately.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The reason this works and why I suspect it won't work on the OPs router
> > is
> > > the Netgear isn't a 802.1D (Spanning Tree Compliant) switch. Those
> > > multicast packets are flow control packets and would not be forwarded
> out
> > > all switch ports downstream as per 802.1D they're reserved to be acted
> > upon
> > > only by the switch.
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