rtr7/router7

How to configure multiple LAN interfaces?

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muja commented

I'm trying to get multiple interfaces working. for this I've provided the interfaces in /perm/interfaces.json:

{
    "interfaces": [
        {
            "hardware_addr": "...",
            "name": "uplink0"
        },
        {
            "hardware_addr": "...",
            "name": "lan0",
            "addr": "10.0.0.1/25"
        },
        {
            "hardware_addr": "...",
            "name": "lan1",
            "addr": "10.0.0.128/29"
        },
        {
            "hardware_addr": "...",
            "name": "lan2",
            "addr": "10.0.0.136/29"
        }
    ]
}

However, dhcp4d only listens on lan0 so I can't get dynamic IPs on the other ports. Obviously this could be fixed inside dhcp4d which would be awesome but my idea was to simply have a dhcp process running per port, supervised by gokrazy, configure the lease path and the HTTP server. However, running multiple processes of the same instance with gokrazy doesn't seem possible, right? What would you suggest in my case?

muja commented

I just noticed even with DHCP working / clients getting IPs, there is no internet access. I believe the nftables is missing? I'm kinda new to networking/routing -- where would I need to change things to make my setup work?

stapelberg commented

My general recommendation for the scenario where you have multiple LAN ports is to bridge them together to one interface:

{
    "bridges":[
	{
	    "name": "lan0",
	    "interface_hardware_addrs": [
		"64:9d:99:b1:fa:63",
		"b8:ce:f6:2f:bf:93",
		"a8:a1:59:3a:cc:53"
	    ]
	}
    ],
    "interfaces": [
	{
	    "hardware_addr": "b8:ce:f6:2f:aa:93",
	    "fec": "RS",
	    "name": "uplink0"
	},
	{
	    "name": "lan0",
	    "addr": "10.0.0.1/24"
	}
    ]
}
muja commented

Thanks, yes that solved it.
Out of curiosity, why didn't the devices on the other ports have network/internet access even when I assigned static IP addresses to them?

And what does the "fec": "RS" do?

stapelberg commented

Out of curiosity, why didn't the devices on the other ports have network/internet access even when I assigned static IP addresses to them?

Because the networking configuration, specifically the nftables rules, only configure NAT between lan0 and uplink0, no other interfaces:

router7/internal/netconfig/netconfig.go

Lines 841 to 850 in 95fc743

Data: nfifname("lan0"),
},
// [ meta load oifname => reg 1 ]
&expr.Meta{Key: expr.MetaKeyOIFNAME, Register: 1},
// [ cmp eq reg 1 0x306e616c 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 ]
&expr.Cmp{
Op: expr.CmpOpEq,
Register: 1,
Data: nfifname("lan0"),

And what does the "fec": "RS" do?

Google “fec RS” :) It’s forward error correction, which is needed for some SFP interfaces to work.