Hi,

> On 23 Nov 2020, at 15:13, Daniel Weismüller <daniel.weismueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Leo,
> 
> that pleases me to hear and I gladly accept your offer. ;-)
> 
> I quickly made a draft and attached it. As I said it is only a draft so there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Great drawing skills.

I would propose to add a second row for the priority because you might not fit it all into one cell. The “priority” label in that box probably isn’t a good idea.

> The checkbox switches the variable named ${ZONE}_STP to 0 or 1.
> The input field fills the variable named ${ZONE}_STP_PRIORITY.
> Here must a number between 1 and 65535 inserted.

I would like the default to be enabled on new systems only.

Can we make that happen?

-Michael

> 
> -
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Am 21.11.20 um 17:39 schrieb Leo Hofmann:
>> Hi Daniel,
>> 
>> a few days ago I finally submitted my patches for zoneconf.cgi and I
>> would now have time to work on this as well.
>> 
>> (By the way, I almost forgot, thanks @Michael for reviewing my patches!)
>> 
>> If you want me to take this on, it would be very helpful if you could
>> summarize how this should work. For example, which config parameters
>> need to be modified. Perhaps you could even paint a simple GUI mock-up
>> like you did last time?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Leo
>> 
>> Am 20.11.2020 um 19:31 schrieb Daniel Weismüller:
>>> OK. ;-)
>>> 
>>> The first step will be the introduction of the possibility to enable STP.
>>> 
>>> The next step will be the implementation in the webif.
>>> 
>>> I hope I find someone who can do that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> Am 20.11.2020 um 16:18 schrieb Kienker, Fred:
>>>> I'm with Michael on this one. If it deserves to be in IPFire, it
>>>> deserves to be on the web interface. Don't created exceptions which are
>>>> only available from a command line.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Fred
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 5:55 AM
>>>> To: Daniel Weismüller <daniel.weismueller(a)ipfire.org>
>>>> Cc: development(a)lists.ipfire.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Core 152: the script "network-hotplug-bridges" now
>>>> reads the variable ${ZONE}_STP from /var/ipfire/ethernet/settings so
>>>> that STP can be turned on and off for each bridge
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>> On 20 Nov 2020, at 06:58, Daniel Weismüller
>>>> <daniel.weismueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> In my opinion it is sufficient to be able to set these parameters via
>>>> command line.
>>>> 
>>>> Why is that? IPFire is a distribution that is supposed to be managed
>>>> entirely by the web user interface.
>>>> 
>>>>> It should only be made sure that the settings are persitend and not
>>>> overwritten by a reboot or the webif.
>>>> 
>>>> They wont be as they are in /var/ipfire/ethernet/settings.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> -Michael
>>>> 
>>>>> -
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am 19.11.2020 um 15:56 schrieb Michael Tremer:
>>>>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This patch looks good to me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I had assumed that we automatically enabled STP on all bridges, but
>>>> apparently we do not.
>>>>>> How do we process with this?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I suppose it is not the most user-friendly way to ask the user to
>>>> edit the configuration file. This either must be documented somewhere or
>>>> the zoneconfig.cgi script needs to be extended to allow enabling STP.
>>>>>> Does anyone want to be able to change any STP parameters like
>>>> priority or cost of the ports?
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> -Michael
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 19 Nov 2020, at 13:18, Daniel Weismüller
>>>> <daniel.weismueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Weismüller <daniel.weismueller(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> config/udev/network-hotplug-bridges | 4 +++-
>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> diff --git a/config/udev/network-hotplug-bridges
>>>> b/config/udev/network-hotplug-bridges
>>>>>>> index 33d6d65ba..7431377bb 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/config/udev/network-hotplug-bridges
>>>>>>> +++ b/config/udev/network-hotplug-bridges
>>>>>>> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ MODE="$(get_value "${ZONE}_MODE")"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> # The name of the virtual bridge
>>>>>>> BRIDGE="$(get_value "${ZONE}_DEV")"
>>>>>>> +STP="$(get_value "${ZONE}_STP")"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> case "${MODE}" in
>>>>>>>     bridge)
>>>>>>> @@ -89,7 +90,8 @@ case "${MODE}" in
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>         # We need to create the bridge if it doesn't exist, yet
>>>>>>>         if [ ! -d "/sys/class/net/${BRIDGE}" ]; then
>>>>>>> -            ip link add "${BRIDGE}" address "${ADDRESS}" type
>>>> bridge
>>>>>>> +            ip link add "${BRIDGE}" address "${ADDRESS}" type
>>>> bridge \
>>>>>>> +                $([ "${STP}" = "on" ] && echo "stp_state 1")
>>>>>>>             #ip link set "${BRIDGE}" up
>>>>>>>         fi
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>> 2.28.0
>>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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