Broadcom: wireless interface names ethX vs wlX

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
the-joker wrote:
to get what you want you need to change many many files. But the obvious ones around

https://github.com/mirror/dd-wrt/blob/master/src/router/httpd/visuals/wireless_broadcom.c
https://github.com/mirror/dd-wrt/blob/master/src/router/services/networking/wifi/brcm_80211x.c

and everything else related (many other files peppered around source code) that relies exclusively on default vendor wlX Broadcom side including the driver itself, since driver is closed source I suggest you complain to Broadcom.

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There are actual real issues that should be fixed Broadcom side, none of them are this.

I agree it's too late to change. It should have done earlier, and for ALL routers.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:26    Post subject: Reply with quote
Earlier, as in over 20 years ago when they were developing the WRT54G? This "issue" is not the fault of DD-WRT. Blame Linksys and Broadcom. I don't even think that FreshTomato has this labeled "correctly". There is a point of collision between 802.1q interface naming conventions, shared code, other hardware platforms' interface names, etc. across the board. I surmise that a decision was made to standardize interface names in the webUI because of someone else's complaints. It is what it is.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:30    Post subject: Reply with quote
kernel-panic69 wrote:
"https://freshtomato.org/images/status-overview-dark.png"

I suspect "wl0.1" should have been "eth1.1" because eth1 was the 2.4GHz! At least, it showed "eth1" for 2.4G and "eth2" for 5G. In DD-WRT's WEBUI, it's just "wl0", no mention of "eth1". Anyway, that's for a new thread.

I wonder what you would see when executing the command "ifconfig" in that Tomato router. Thanks.

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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2023 9:33    Post subject: Reply with quote
the-joker wrote:
To get what you want (renaming interfaces) you need to change many many files. But the obvious ones are:

https://github.com/mirror/dd-wrt/blob/master/src/router/httpd/visuals/wireless_broadcom.c

https://github.com/mirror/dd-wrt/blob/master/src/router/services/networking/wifi/brcm_80211x.c

and everything else related (many other files peppered around source code) that relies exclusively on default vendor wlX Broadcom side including the driver itself, since driver is closed source I suggest you complain to Broadcom.

Possibly also related in the source codes of DD-WRT:

sysinit-broadcom.c in src/router/services/sysinit – DD-WRT
https://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src/router/services/sysinit/sysinit-broadcom.c

dd-wrt/sysinit-broadcom.c at master · mirror/dd-wrt · GitHub
https://github.com/mirror/dd-wrt/blob/master/src/router/services/sysinit/sysinit-broadcom.c

Need time to really read them all. But "ctf" is definitely in sysinit-broadcom.c!

Might also explain the mystery of broken port-forwading when CTF was enabled? That will be a secondary objective.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2023 15:25    Post subject: Reply with quote
Unless you have an NDA with either Broadcom or BrainSlayer, you won't realize how much of a Don Quixote quest this is. It's best to just leave it alone.
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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2023 11:23    Post subject: Reply with quote
dale_gribble39 wrote:
Unless you have an NDA with either Broadcom or BrainSlayer, you won't realize how much of a Don Quixote quest this is. It's best to just leave it alone.

I am excpecting nothing out of this quest. Smile
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