Storm control used meters 0 to 39, the same meters the ACL hands out,
so a storm limit and an acl meter could overwrite each other. It now
uses 24 + port * 4 + type, meters 24 to 63.
parse_storm() is no longer reentrant and uses plain locals, looks the
type up in a while loop and returns straight from the one-line cases.
storm_show() uses plain locals too.
The documentation says how IGMP decides between mcast and umcast, how
to get from a meter index to its limit, where the IFG bit of a meter
is, and what an ingress bandwidth limit on the same port does to the
storm limit.
Add support for the F7008-2.5 board (PCB F7008-2.5GPOE-V1.2), an
RTL8373N + RTL8224N design with eight 2.5GBASE-T ports and one SFP+ cage.
The LED pads are not wired in port order, so the generic DEFAULT_8C_1SFP
target lights the wrong lamp on this board. The pad to lamp map was
measured on the hardware and is documented in doc/devices/F7008-2.5.md.
The green lamp marks a 2.5G link, the yellow lamp blinks while data flows.
The counters, the phase hooks in idle() and the "health" command are now
behind HEALTH, set from the command line with HEALTH=1. Without it the
hooks are empty macros and the command does not exist, so a default build
carries none of it: on SWTGW218AS that is 1065 bytes of bank 2, 101 of the
common segment and 28 of xdata, plus seven banked calls per main-loop pass.
It is a developer's tool. Reading the dump takes knowing the main loop, and
a user who needs it for a report can build with the flag on, which is how
the kernel treats its lock and latency instrumentation as well.
What each line of the dump means, how two dumps give rates, and the
two things worth knowing before trusting the numbers: the command
inflates its own cmd phase counters by the cost of printing, and the
untouched figure is a high-water mark, not a live level.
The header carried the save button, the language selector and the theme
selector on every section, although the latter two are set once. They
now live in a Display card in the System section; the header keeps the
title, the unsaved-changes badge and Save to flash.
Review of #397 pointed at the bare 10, which shows up in fifteen places. It
is the width of the port field in the MSTP register, so it is the CPU port
index plus one and it gets a name.
The web page counted to ten as well when listing a group's members. It uses
numPorts now, like the rest of that page does.
The aggregation section of the doc no longer names the OEM firmware or calls
a group a trunk, and it says plainly that the hardware keeps no per-group
state, so the firmware writes the members itself.
Generated code is unchanged: the only difference in the assembly is the
version string.
Spanning tree so far saw only physical ports. Two ports aggregated towards
the same neighbour look to the protocol like two parallel paths, so it
blocks one of them and cuts the group in half.
Give each of the four groups an STP entity of its own, numbered above the
physical ports. A member port answers to its group: BPDUs arriving on it
are accounted to the entity, the entity's state is written to every member
together, and its BPDUs carry the state of a live member. Ports outside
any group keep behaving exactly as before.
Membership comes from the aggregation tables once a second; when it
changed, the entity's state is reapplied to the new set of members. The
CLI takes lag <1-4> wherever it takes port <n>, the web UI shows a group
as one row, and the saved config keeps the lag form of the commands.
Fold the "group with no ports" case into the argument-count guard
(cmd_words_len < 3) instead of a separate check, and accept only "d" for
delete, dropping the longer "delete" spelling. Update the serial-console
docs to match.
This PCB is used in RY-8GT-1SX. The UART has swapped Rx and 3.3V VCC as
documented in `doc/devices/FG-8GT-1SX.md` so I imagine there would be
a revision later, after the current '2622' batch, like the RY-4GT-2SX /
FG-4GT-2SX_V2.0 pair from the same vendor.
Both conflicts are the register keyword removal meeting a change of ours,
so each takes main's signature and keeps what the branch was saying:
nic_rx_packet() still returns a bool, and port_ingress_filter_get() stays
declared.
main has since put its own copy of the STP module in BANK2, so the pragma
this branch carried is now duplicated. The one with main's comment stays.
This PCB appears only slightly different to the already supported and
documented PCB-SWTG115AS-V2.0. It works without any changes to the
machine definition.
While at it, also fix a typo (8272 instead of 8372), and include the
existing unused pictures on the device page.
A blocked port does pass a received BPDU up to the CPU. The evidence is in
logicog's capture of a looped pair: the port the loop check had already
blocked kept reporting a BPDU age of zero seconds across dumps taken more
than a forward delay apart, and that counter is only cleared in stp_in().
That is also what makes the loop latch work, since the port that stays
forwarding has to go on hearing the blocked one.
The tag flag comment said the source address is not learned on the egress
port. doc/CpuPort.md defines it as not learning the source address from the
frame at all, which is the narrower claim to make. The dangling heading
above it described a field that is documented there too.
The tree structure already crossed the switch by regeneration, but the
topology-change information did not: a received TC flag was ignored and
a TCN only acknowledged, so bridges behind this one kept stale entries
until normal aging.
A TC flag in a received BPDU now flushes the other non-edge ports once
and arms the transmit window our BPDUs already copy the flag from,
refreshed to hello+1 seconds by every further flagged frame so it ends
one hello after the neighbour stops, without shortening the longer
window a local change arms. A TCN is acknowledged as before and then
treated like a local change on that port.
The window could be armed from the serial console but only ever disarmed
by an HTTP request. save_cmd, which gates arming, is cleared only while
execute_config() replays the startup config, so every interactive command
armed it wherever it was typed, while mgmt_alive, which disarms it, was
written in exactly one place, on HTTP traffic. An operator working
entirely on the serial console therefore lost STP 180 seconds after
enabling it however much they typed, which is what makes the mechanism
impossible to test from a console.
The documentation described the behaviour that was intended rather than
the one that was built, and in both directions: it said a command on the
serial console also confirms, and it said a reboot with STP in the
startup config disables it again three minutes later. Neither held. The
replay path never armed the window at all.
Repairing the asymmetry would have kept a mechanism whose premise is
contested anyway. A watchdog that switches the protection off in response
to silence adds a second failure mode on top of the first: where the
network is misconfigured and STP is the thing holding a storm back,
restoring forwarding removes the last reason management still answers.
Gone with it: the stp failsafe command, the fs and fsT fields of
/stp.json, the input and the tripped banner on the Spanning Tree page,
the two persistence patterns in config.js, the documentation section, and
mgmt_alive itself, which had no other reader.
550 bytes back, 145 of BANK1 and 405 of BANK2, and five of xdata, which
is the four counters and mgmt_alive and nothing else. Built for
SWTGW218AS and KP_9000_6XHML_X2 on sdcc 4.5.0.
Review asked for this directly: the hardware layout above port_l2mc_set()
would be better as documentation than as a comment, keeping only the two
lines that say what the function does.
doc/l2.md gains a section on static multicast entries, why delivery uses
the forward action rather than the trap, and the SMI layout of the entry.
doc/CpuPort.md gains the layout of the tag's flags and pmask words, with
the byte order trap that cost an afternoon: writing the flags constant raw
instead of through HTONS puts 0x0020 on the wire as 0x2000, which is EFID
rather than LEARN_DIS, and the ASIC then leaves the 0x8899 header on the
frame.
The comments those paragraphs came from are replaced by a pointer to the
file that now holds them.
The note said a blocked port drops frames the CPU injects into it and so
cannot send BPDUs of its own. Hardware says otherwise, and it matters,
because that sentence is the reason one would go looking for a way to let
control frames out of a blocked port when there is nothing to fix there.
Held a two port group in blocking and watched from the neighbour. Our
BPDUs kept leaving it, 27 of them with a largest gap of 2.00 s, which is
the hello interval with nothing missed. Pings across the same port stopped
dead for 11.63 s in one unbroken gap, so data really is held. In the same
window the neighbour sent 74 frames with a largest gap of 1.04 s while our
receive counter for them moved by 2, and the port stayed in its trunk
throughout, so nothing in the aggregation code was discarding them.