Re: DSA with MV88E6321 and imx28

[Benjamin Beckmeyer <beb@eks-engel.de>]

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Benjamin Beckmeyer wrote:
>>>> So all ports are now in forwarding mode (Switch port register 0x4 of all ports 
>>>> are 0x7f), but I don't reach it over ping.
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> The most common error for people new to DSA is forgetting to bring
>>> the master interface up.
>>>
>>> The second thing to understand is that by default, all interfaces are
>>> separated. So the switch won't bridge frames between ports, until you
>>> add the ports to a Linux bridge. But you can give each interface its
>>> own IP address.
>>>
>>>     Andrew
>> Hi Andrew,
>> thanks for your help again. Sorry for the late reply we had a stats day yesterday. 
>> What interface do you mean with master interface? I assume, you mean eth0 (cpu port)?
> Yes. The master interface is the pipe between the host and the
> switch. It is only used as a pipe. It needs to be up, but there is no
> point having an IP address on it, since it cannot send packets itself.
>
> lan1-4 are slave interfaces. They can have IP addresses.
>
>> I deleted the IP address of this interface and tried to add it to the bridge:
>>
>> brctl addif bridge0 eth0
>> brctl: bridge bridge0: Invalid argument
> Yes, you should not do this. Just have the master interface up, but
> otherwise leave it alone. It also needs to be up before you bring the
> slave interfaces up.
>
>> I tried this with all lan1-4 interfaces and they just work and directly after
>> I added them I got some information about the port:
>>
>> brctl addif br0 lan4
>> [  156.085842] br0: port 4(lan4) entered blocking state
>> [  156.091022] br0: port 4(lan4) entered disabled state
>>
>> After I brought up the bridge with:
>>
>> ip link set br0 up
>> [  445.313697] br0: port 4(lan4) entered blocking state
>> [  445.318896] br0: port 4(lan4) entered forwarding state
>>
>> So I gave my eth0 an IP address and started tcpdump on eth0:
> No. If you have created a bridge, put the IP address on the bridge.
> If you have a slave which is not part of the bridge, you can give it
> an IP address. Just treat the interfaces as Linux interfaces. Run
> dhclient on them, use ethtool, iproute2, an snmp agent, add them to a
> bridge. They are just normal Linux interfaces, which can make use of
> the switch hardware to accelerate some operations, like bridging
> frames.
>
>    Andrew

Hi Andrew,
it set up a bridge now, added all four ethernet ports to it, brought all four
interfaces up and the bridge up and gave the bridge an IP address.
If I try to capture on the bridge interface nothing is coming in. On the eth0
interface at least the ARP request comes in.

I captured a ping from my device to my computer to look if outgoing is working
(captured on both devices). Here is the output from my device where i started the:

00:24:24.752057 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.10.2 tell 192.168.10.1, length 28
	0x0000:  0001 0800 0604 0001 6a2a ad79 def5 c0a8  ........j*.y....
	0x0010:  0a01 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0a02            ............

and here the output of the receiver:

14:49:06.725940 MEDSA 0.2:0: ARP, Request who-has benjamin-HP tell 192.168.10.1, length 42
	0x0000:  0000 4010 0000 0806 0001 0800 0604 0001  ..@.............
	0x0010:  6a2a ad79 def5 c0a8 0a01 0000 0000 0000  j*.y............
	0x0020:  c0a8 0a02 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
	0x0030:  0000

I'm really stuck at the moment because I don't know what to do further. I think, 
I did everything what is needed.
And I know when I configure the switch manually via MDIO the connection is working.
When I'm looking for traffic in ifconfig on all ports there is everywhere 0 bytes 
except for eth0.
Do you have any ideas?

	Benjamin