"1. Have VLAN devices on top of vlan-enabled bridges to define hotplug ops where applicable, so LAN could be a plain VLAN interface switch0.1 instead of its own bridge."
By this you mean that the creation of the switch0.1 device will trigger automatically through the hotplug op "bridge vlan add dev switch0 vid 1 tagged self" or its equivalent? On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 13:29, Felix Fietkau <n...@nbd.name> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2020-07-23 12:10, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > > yeah I forgot to elaborate that in my last mail. The problem of dynamic / > > not > > explicitly addressable wifi interface names in the network config remains. > > > > The best solution I can think of is fixing the wifi ifnames using "option > > ifname" in the wifi-iface sections (which causes some very interesting > > effects > > in my tests when not applied to *all* wifi-ifaces) and then using those > > fixes > > names in /etc/config/network. > > > > The other alternative I see would be a hypothetical new notation comparable > > to > > the existing alias notation that resolves ifnames to their actual values at > > runtime... something like "@wifi-network(ssid=foo)" but this is just a very > > vague idea I had from time to time throughout the last few years which never > > gained any traction. > I'm considering the following extensions to netifd: > > 1. Have VLAN devices on top of vlan-enabled bridges to define hotplug > ops where applicable, so LAN could be a plain VLAN interface switch0.1 > instead of its own bridge. > 2. With these wrapper hotplug ops, a default VLAN would be passed as > well, unless overwritten by other VLAN settings (see below) > 3. In addition to option network, allow specifying option network-vlan > in the wifi-iface section and have it contain a list of VLANs + > modifiers (tagged/PVID). > > For a simple default config, you could have this: > > # network > config device > option name switch0 > > config bridge-vlan > option vlan 1 > option ports "lan1 lan2 lan3 lan4" > > config interface lan > option ifname switch0.1 > > > # wireless > > config wifi-iface > option network lan > > > In this case, wlan0 would be added to switch0 and set to VLAN 1 untagged > by default. > > If you want it on VLAN 10 tagged/PVID instead, you could do: > option network-vlan "10:t*" > > > What do you think? > > - Felix _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
