OpenWrt 21.02 status

[Arınç ÜNAL]

If the user enabled packet mirroring on swconfig, we need to migrate that too.

I don't think UCI supports packet mirroring via the DSA framework,
yet. Anyone with UCI knowledge want to help out?
tc-full package is needed.

Refer to:
https://biot.com/switches/testing/mirroring


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 8:31 AM Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rich
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 2:06 AM Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Arınç
> >
> > On Jul 20, 2021, at 3:09 PM, Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Let's say we wrote a script that takes 19.07 network config and
> > outputs one with DSA configuration instead, how do we implement it in
> > the image that, after upgrade, it will ask the user to convert the
> > swconfig configuration to DSA?
> >
> >
> > I'm at the edge of my knowledge here - scripting ash/bash is not a strong suit. But one random neuron fires: I do wonder whether it's worth including a comment at the head of /etc/config/network something like this:
> >
> > # Converted with swconfig2dsa on 22Jul2021
> >
> > That could serve to indicate that you shouldn't run the script again.
> That's an idea. Although, I was thinking the script would only run
> once, i.e. after the upgrade, when the user heads to Network ->
> Interfaces, a warning pops up and forces the user to migrate to DSA.
> We wouldn't have to put any comment on the configuration file, keep
> things clean.
>
> Cheers.
> Arınç