I want this in mailinlist too, hopefully forward is okay and correct: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Franske <ben.li...@franske.com> Date: Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Donating TL-Archer C7 v2 for developer To: Sami Olmari <s...@olmari.fi>
Sami, I'm a very power user of OpenWRT and also a light developer of it. I happen to have one of the Archer C7 v2 units myself. I agree there are definitely some bugs there but the switch config is not something we can do much about I don't think. I agree it's quite different than other devices but that is because of the way the hardware is built and not because of OpenWRT. Once you actually figure out the switch configuration it's pretty flexible, just different than what you would expect. Because it's different than many devices the LuCI interface for configuring it is misleading and confusing. I find it less confusing to work with it in the /etc/config/network text file configuration. When I get some time I hope to do a better job of documenting it. You can definitely do VLANs though, in fact two VLANs are part of the default OpenWRT config on this device. Basically, it is a seven port switch. Each of the five physical Ethernet ports (WAN, LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, LAN4) are represented and it has TWO CPU ports. A table showing the relationship of the switch ports to the physical and CPU ports is on the wiki at <http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500> The default configuration is to use VLAN1 to carry the LAN traffic (connecting eth1 with LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, and LAN4) and VLAN2 to carry the WAN traffic (connecting eth0 with WAN). You can add extra VLANs if you so desire and change eth1 (switch port 0) to a tagged port. In this way it will operate just like any other OpenWRT controlled switch. The key difference is that you must always reserve one VLAN for connecting the WAN port (switch port 1) to the eth0 port (switch port 6). Hope this helps clarify! -Ben On 11/29/2014 6:11 PM, Sami Olmari wrote: > > Hi > > I'd like to donate an TP-Link Archer C7 v2 to keep for willing OpenWrt > developer in exchange for (trying to) make it more bugfree. There is > at least few known bugs, https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18362 and > https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18363 > > Then there is also matter of switch config which kinda doesn't make > any sense, nor editing it works as expected (too many ports, no sane > CPU port, can't do VLANs essentially). > > Anyone interested? > > Sami Olmari > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
