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
>>>>
>
>