From 03a6d62d49fcddfcbd06db147d71d737d2b91558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Barlow Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:36:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] new todo list --- THOUGHTS.txt | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) diff --git a/THOUGHTS.txt b/THOUGHTS.txt index 74d22e8..cd9caf1 100644 --- a/THOUGHTS.txt +++ b/THOUGHTS.txt @@ -935,6 +935,8 @@ untagged) Mon Mar 6 09:42:33 GMT 2023 +Today I plugged in the mt300a. + echo 17 >/sys/class/gpio/export echo out >/sys/class/gpio/gpio17/direction @@ -985,3 +987,59 @@ ip link add link eth0 name wan type vlan id 2 figure out how to add these to gl-mt300a device config then extedner.nix can add a bridge + +Tue Mar 7 20:13:15 GMT 2023 + +We need NTP or some other way to get accurate time + +[done] Need to add regulatory.db somewhere standard, maybe modules/wlan? + +Tue Mar 7 21:43:56 GMT 2023 + +When we get to phase 2, need to review how network interfaces and +their addresses interplay. It should be possible to have a network +interface and interrogate the addresses associated with it - esp +with ipv6 where there are multiple addresses for the device + +This thought prompted by looking at the loopback interface, which is +a bundle of addresses and therefore we can't see what any of them are + + +Tue Mar 7 22:05:44 GMT 2023 + +[phase 1] +1) gl-ar750, why do we get "ag71xx 19000000.eth: invalid MAC address, using random address" +18) gl-mt300a what's left? +19) gl-mt300n-v2 what works? +20) publish the manual using CI +30) document flashing process +31) go through all the other unexpected dmesg and triage + +[phase 1.5] +8) get ipv6 address from pppoe +9) get ipv6 delegation from pppoe and add prefix to lan +10) support dhcp6 in dnsmasq, and advertise prefix on lan +11) firewalling and nat - default deny or zero trust? +7) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option, move ppp and pppoe derivations into their own files +31) set up iperf and do some performance measurement + +[phase 2] +3) document services so I can remember how they work. Refer back to Oct 18 for notes that no longer make sense +4) check out restart behaviour of dependent services when depended-on service dies +13) check that references to outputs correspond with declared outputs +33) network interfaces vs the services that manage their addresses +34) write a short guide explaining how to use s6-svc + +[phase n] +12) write secrets holder as a service with outputs +16) writable filesystem (ubifs?) +17) overlay with squashfs/ubifs - useful? think about workflows for how this thing is installed + + +dmesg lines to investigate for gl-mt300a: +[ 0.467314] OF: Bad cell count for /palmbus@10000000/spi@b00/flash@0/partition +[ 0.539709] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet: mdio-bus disabled ? +[ 8.778513] compat: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. +[ 17.686561] ieee80211 phy0: rt2800_wait_bbp_rf_ready: Error - BBP/RF register access failed, aborting +[ 17.696025] ieee80211 phy0: rt2800_loft_iq_calibration: Warning - RF RX busy in LOFT IQ calibration +[ 17.875147] ieee80211 phy0: rt2800_rxiq_calibration: Warning - Timeout waiting for MAC status in RXIQ calibration