[OpenWrt-Devel] DVB tuners

2015-05-14 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
Hi, I am looking into set-top-box applications and wondered if you guys were aware of any devices with DVB functionality. I'm particularly interested in whether there are any Linux SoC devices with interfaces capable of handling multiple DVB tuners. I would guess this could be handles using

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] IPv6: network segmentation, use of vlan and IPsec

2015-03-27 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
Hi Gnutella, This is likely not the correct mailing list for general network questions like this, and I'd suggest you go to somewhere like ##networking on Freenode to talk about this, however I'll try to answer your questions :) Firstly, your question seems to lack the clear distinction that

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Why OpenWrt sucks?

2015-03-09 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
On 09/03/15 20:02, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Main issue is that wifi chip manufacturers don't offer open source wifi drivers. If Atheros and Broadcom understood Open source as Intel does then you would get absolutely top speed and reliability from OpenWrt wifi drivers. You don't get top no

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 3/3] b53: create slave devices for ports

2015-02-26 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
I'm also very interested in implementing a switchdev driver (seems to be a good direction for this type of work), so I'd like to see any efforts in this direction so far which I can use as a base for my driver. I was waiting for the switch to Linux 3.19 for the initial code be be easily availab

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] General questions about the direction of switch drivers

2015-02-17 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
On 17/02/15 15:00, Michael Richardson wrote: The situation which I wanted was to have a port with three or four tagged interfaces visible to the kernel. Of those tagged LANs, I then wanted to have some of the visible on another physical port, untagged. The tagged port goes into a (cisco) SOHO

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] General questions about the direction of switch drivers

2015-02-16 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
On 16/02/15 21:34, Dirk Neukirchen wrote: There might be 2 interesting posts regarding current/future state and development direction of In-Kernel drivers: 1) rejected in 2013: "net: phy: add Generic Netlink switch configuration API" link: http://lwn.net/Articles/571390/ The thread might be of (

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] General questions about the direction of switch drivers

2015-02-16 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
Hi David, On 16/02/15 21:03, David Lang wrote: A work-around for many of the items other than the basic VLAN membership and tagging is to force the traffic between the different switch ports to go through the CPU by putting the different ports on different VLANs and then using the kernel bridg

[OpenWrt-Devel] General questions about the direction of switch drivers

2015-02-16 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
nters * Security settings and filtering rules * STP * Layer 3 functionality (hardware IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables) * Hardware NAT / firewall Some of this functionality may simply require configuration, where other functions require the active involvement of the CPU. Thanks, Charlie Ch

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] byte counters for IP address using IPTABLES

2015-02-04 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
Is this router doing SNAT? If so, these packets are likely being mangled by connection tracking before they get matched by the filter. Charlie On 04/02/15 13:48, INYO L wrote: hi, I have some trouble about the openwrt system, and the linux kernelver-3.10.49 , iptables version 1.4.21 (barrie

[OpenWrt-Devel] RouterBOARD CRS125-24G-1S

2015-01-19 Thread Charlie Smurthwaite
r when I start work on the Ethernet switch). I've attached my basic code so far. Thanks, Charlie /* * MikroTik Cloud Router Switch CRS125G support * * Copyright (C) 2012 Stijn Tintel * Copyright (C) 2012 Gabor Juhos * Copyright (C) 2015 Charlie Smurthwaite * * This program is fr