[READY] - Belkin RT3200 support for scale openwrt

sarcasticadmin commented 11 months ago

Description of PR

Fixes: #367 #532

I wanted to get this to a place where it was workable before it got any larger. But this adds support for a new piece of hardware: Belkin RT3200/linksys (https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450)

There are some known issues with whats here but Ill clean that up in follow up PRs, mainly:

Disable logd
Add back the backdoor network interface for the new mt-7622 hardware
disable conntrack and netfilter modules
Enable MIMO hardware offloading on belkin 3200
Supporting new htmode for wifi channel allocation (AX modes specifically)? however, after reviewing the docs we might just wanted to leave this in a general sweet spot: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/basic#htmodewi-fi_channel_width
Enable radio3 for wifi6

Each of these items has been spun out as an issue in our backlog

Previous Behavior

Only supported 2 APs architectures
Weekly build of ar71xx, ipq806x
Openwrt configs were built with the default being ar71xx

New Behavior

Support for 3 AP architectures: ar71xx, mt-7622, ipq806x (technically 4 with x86_64 as well but we dont run that on hardware)
Default openwrt config leverages neutral x86_64 architecture so no architecture/hardware specific packages are pulled in. We will now default to leveraging x64_64 when building common.config for openwrt.
Leveraging architecture specific files-<arch> dir to overlay config after files templating. This provides a much clearer way to place architecture specific configuration instead of if, elif, ... in the go templates
DSA configuration for mt-7622
Weekly build of: ar71xx, mt-7622
Move ar71xx specific configuration (wired, wireless) to its own files-ar71xx folder
Disable golden tests for ipq806x since we will not be investing any additional effort into that architecture

Tests

DSA network configuration was tested on the mgmt interface for both vlan 103 & 503

brctl show, confirming STP enabled on all interfaces:

# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
scaleslow-br            7fff.e89f80e7f941       yes             br-lan.500
                                                    br-lan.100
br-lan          7fff.e89f80e7f941       yes             lan4
                                                    lan2
                                                    wan
                                                    lan3
                                                    lan1
mgmt-br         7fff.e89f80e7f941       yes             br-lan.503
                                                    br-lan.103
scalefast-br            7fff.e89f80e7f941       yes             br-lan.501
                                                    br-lan.101

note spanning tree (STP) is enabled

Tested the uptime with real traffic for the last ~4 days. Looks stable:

# uptime
 08:39:56 up 4 days,  3:49,  load average: 0.14, 0.04, 0.01

CI image build results: https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-network/actions/runs/5946721473

sarcasticadmin commented 11 months ago

@owendelong thanks for the review and the feedback! If you need any more clarification you know where to find me!

sarcasticadmin commented 10 months ago

Thanks @kylerisse for your review, Ill make the small tweaks and then report back when its pushed up

sarcasticadmin commented 10 months ago

@owendelong @kylerisse Marking this as ready! Thanks again for the feedback and review. Ive spun out some additional items to address with this hardware after we get this initial set of changes merged.

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