[FS#390] Bt Home Hub 5 Type A Bridging Yellow Switch and RED Port does not work

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FS#390 - Bt Home Hub 5 Type A Bridging Yellow Switch and RED Port does not work
User who did this - Mathias Kresin (mkresin)

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>  I tried to interpret what you were trying to do and I edited 02_network as follows to overcome the rejects.

... and you failed. Your change is incomplete. Here is the deal, test my staging tree as it is or forget about it. I don't have the time to explain to you how the world actually works.

>  You renamed "wan" to "xwan" and assigned "wan" to the Red Ethernet. Not only this is unnecessary, it is wrong because, as I explained in the lede-dev list, there is a very low priority case to use it as a WAN port and it could be done anyway whatever the name.

Have you had a look at the author date of my commits? My commits are way older than your bug ticket. The commits are fixing way more than just your issue. That your issue gets fixed by the commits as well is more or less a side effect.

> The current "wan" port configuration is fine as it is and it should not be touched. 

No it isn't. At the moment it is not possible to use the ethernet wan port as wan interface out of the box. And that is what an ethernet wan port is for. Just because you don't have a use case to connect an external (fibre) modem doesn't mean that an ethernet wan isn't required.

>  Please ensure too that the Yellow switch can be extended to use the Red Ethernet port 5.

Seriously? Does it really starts again? In my first post I've provided an example configuration how the ethernet wan port can be used as lan port after applying my patches.
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