[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 5/5] malta: use "static" proto for lan interface

[Yousong Zhou]

On 29 October 2015 at 00:19, Florian Fainelli <florian at openwrt.org> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2015 5:56 AM, "Yousong Zhou" <yszhou4tech at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is almost the default config of OpenWrt targets (currently even
>> those sunxi boards with only one ethernet interface use static IP
>> address for its lan interface).
>
> And this is intend intended, because Malta is primarily used under qemu,
> from which you get your network to be NAT'd or bridged from/with the host.
> Your change would force an user to reconfigure the network on boot, and that
> seems like a less sensible default to me.
>

The current default is not that sensible anyway.  If I understand it
correctly, many packages in OpenWrt assume that lan is for the
"internal" part of the network map, e.g. by default, dnsmasq will
serve DHCP requests on lan interface, firewall will also allow
forwarding on lan interface.  A workaround can be making eth0 the
default wan interface.

When it comes to OpenWrt development with QEMU Malta, the benefits of
a better emulated dev/network environment can definitely compensate
for the efforts of setting up the environment needed only for the
first time.

                yousong

>>
>> While at it, also configure a wan interface if eth1 exists.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  target/linux/malta/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/02-network |    5 ++++-
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/target/linux/malta/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/02-network
>> b/target/linux/malta/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/02-network
>> index e90ecbe..1b22ec5 100644
>> --- a/target/linux/malta/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/02-network
>> +++ b/target/linux/malta/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/02-network
>> @@ -3,4 +3,7 @@
>>  . /lib/functions/uci-defaults.sh
>>
>>  ucidef_set_interface_loopback
>> -ucidef_set_interface_raw "lan" "eth0" "dhcp"
>> +ucidef_set_interface_lan "eth0"
>> +if [ -d "/sys/class/net/eth1" ]; then
>> +       ucidef_set_interface_wan "eth1"
>> +fi
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
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