DSA Terminology

[Val Kulkov]

On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 04:09, Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com> wrote:
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> On 13.09.2022 05:43, Rich Brown wrote:
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> >
> > But if I'm reading it right, there's a clash between your definitions (say, in https://openwrt.org/playground/arinc9/network.interfaces) and the LuCI interface and the /etc/config/wirelsss terminology. If I'm reading it right, "config device" controls the configuration of interfaces, while "config interface" does what your DSA terminology calls "networks". Is this correct?
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> Exactly. Slight correction, it's computer networking rather than DSA
> terminology.
>

Note that both /etc/config/firewall and /etc/config/wireless refer to
"network" rather than "interface" in the following configuration
options:
option network 'lan'
option network 'wan'
option network 'wan6'

In the above examples, 'lan', 'wan' and 'wan6' are the names of
interfaces as they are defined in /etc/config/network. This is not
intuitive. I think the value of "option network" should be a network
name as the name of this option suggests, not an interface name.

IMHO changing, in /etc/config/network:
"config interface" -> "config network"
"config device" -> "config interface"
would eliminate this semantic inconsistency and bring the naming
convention more in line with what Rich referred to in his comments
above.