BSS Coloring for Wi-Fi 6

[MrHamel]

Description

Add BSS Coloring ID based on the last octet of the management IP address (2-63)

Acceptance Criteria

What is the expected outcome that resolves this issue?

BSS Coloring is added to the script (https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/scale-network/blob/master/openwrt/files/etc/udhcpc.user)

[sarcasticadmin]

Example /tmp/udhcpc.params:

udhcpc.params.txt

[sarcasticadmin]

We should key on e8450-ubi in board.json:

~# cat /etc/board.json | jq -r .
{
  "model": {
    "id": "linksys,e8450-ubi",
    "name": "Linksys E8450 (UBI)"
  },
  "led": {
    "wan": {
      "name": "WAN",
      "sysfs": "inet:blue",
      "type": "netdev",
      "device": "wan",
      "mode": "link tx rx"
    }
  },
  "network": {
    "lan": {
      "ports": [
        "lan1",
        "lan2",
        "lan3",
        "lan4"
      ],
      "protocol": "static"
    },
    "wan": {
      "device": "wan",
      "protocol": "dhcp"
    }
  },
  "wlan": {
    "wl0": {
      "path": "platform/18000000.wmac"
    },
    "wl1": {
      "path": "1a143000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0"
    },
    "wl2": {
      "path": "1a145000.pcie/pci0001:00/0001:00:01.0/0001:01:00.0"
    }
  }
}

[sarcasticadmin]

Additional info was recently added to the openwrt wiki regarding BSS coloring: https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450#beam_forming_and_enable_basic_service_set_bss_coloring

[davidelang]

did you add the bridger package to this build to enable the WED offload for 5GHz that's mentioned on the same page?

David Lang

On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, Robert James Hernandez wrote:

Additional info was recently added to the openwrt wiki regarding BSS coloring: https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e8450#beam_forming_and_enable_basic_service_set_bss_coloring

[sarcasticadmin]

yes its on the same page