Support Babeld without VLAN on ethernet interfaces inside br-lan, replaces #600 #631

ilario · 2019-10-20T21:59:37Z

This is #600 with very few modifications, like the removal of a conditional dependency.
Will fix #596 and is a step towards #581.
I tested on various routers (YouHua WR1200JS, TP-Link WDR3600, Ubiquiti NanoStation LoCo M2, Comtrend AR-5387un, Comtrend AR-5315u) with or without VLAN.
This PR allows to use YouHua WR1200JS also with ethernet connections (there's a drivers bug to be confirmed which maybe affects all the Mediatek routers) when setting VLAN 0 (no VLAN).

spiccinini · 2019-10-20T23:05:12Z

packages/lime-proto-babeld/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/proto/babeld.lua

 	local uci = config.get_uci_cursor()

-	if(vlanId ~= 0 and ifname:match("^eth")) then
+	if tonumber(vlanId) ~= 0 and ifname:match("^eth") then


Hmmm.... can vlanId be a string?

It is a very bad idea to set it as a string, but if an user sets it as a string, network.lua at this line

lime-packages/packages/lime-system/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/network.lua

Line 290 in d81c12c

xpcall(function() proto.configure(args) ; proto.setup_interface(device, args) end,

passes the string to the proto, and no protocol force it to be a number. e.g. babeld just takes it

lime-packages/packages/lime-proto-babeld/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/proto/babeld.lua

Line 102 in d81c12c

local vlanId = args[2] or 17

lime-config returns no error if a string is used and results in a nil value here

lime-packages/packages/lime-system/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/network.lua

Line 339 in d81c12c

vid = tonumber(vid)

and interfaces with appended a "_nil" string here

lime-packages/packages/lime-system/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/network.lua

Line 363 in d81c12c

linux802adIfName = linux802adIfName:gsub("[^%w-]", "-")..network.protoVlanSeparator..vlanId

I'm going to prepare a PR about this :)

Not only this, it is always a string now as how it is parsed from the config. So yes, the conversion to numeric is always needed... (the problem is that we dont have a single test for this for example with vlanid=0)

… numeric

spiccinini

Please add tests (I can help!)

G10h4ck · 2019-10-27T08:12:42Z

babeld_over_batman option should not be removed, is what permit us to eventually setup and test babel only on frontier nodes, as per the original libremesh scalability proposal

G10h4ck

see my comment in discussion

ilario

babeld_over_batman option should not be removed, is what permit us to eventually setup and test babel only on frontier nodes, as per the original libremesh scalability proposal

@G10h4ck ah... Rly? This scenario is the number 1 feature in LibreMesh and I did not understand how it should work until now. More documentation is needed (this is not explained neither in the How it works). I will add that option back as soon as possible.

ilario · 2019-10-21T11:51:47Z

packages/lime-proto-babeld/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/proto/babeld.lua

+		if ifname:match("^wlan") and tonumber(vlanId) == 0 then
+			uci:set("network", owrtInterfaceName, "ifname", "@"..owrtDeviceName)
+		else
+			uci:set("network", owrtInterfaceName, "ifname", linuxVlanIfName)
+		end


@spiccinini @G10h4ck @nicopace @gmarcos87
Please review this, I think is the most likely-to-be-suboptimal part of this PR.

That is not a new issue, we have workarounds for similar thing in other places of the code, it seems that when one uses linuxVlanIfName this trigger a race condition inside netifd due to some unsolved upstream bug, and that causes unreliable behaviour, if with this workaround it works well in all cases (I assume you tested it a lot) I am ok to merge it!

I did test it on 5 different routers (listed in the first comment in the PR), but more testing would also be nice to have :)
Can you point me to the other places in the code where such a workaround is used (so that I can compare solutions)?

babeld_over_batman option should not be removed, is what permit us to eventually setup and test babel only on frontier nodes, as per the original libremesh scalability proposal

@G10h4ck ah... Rly? This scenario is the number 1 feature in LibreMesh and I did not understand how it should work until now. More documentation is needed (this is not explained neither in the How it works). I will add that option back as soon as possible.

To implement libremesh full proposal is not a simple task, so we started from the easier part, which is solvable more or less just by generating a static configuration when lime-config is run. The other parts of the proposal (for example automatically turn on L3 routing protocol only on frontier nodes) needs more thins going on at run-time, and we are implementing those things bit by bit (shared-state is one of those things). In the meanwhile even if we don't have all those pieces in place is important to keep the pieces we already have compatible with that scenario, so when we get there it is not too overwhelming to make it work.

I just added back the babeld_over_batman option, I just took the code for it from #600 so it should work (not tested now, but I tested some times ago in the previous PR).

@spiccinini could you test this on LibreRouter? Two scenarios should be tested: with VLAN and without VLAN.
To verify that it works: issue echo dump | nc ::1 30003 and check if all the included interfaces (apart from the WAN one) have an IPv4 in both VLAN and noVLAN configurations. In the noVLAN configuration the br-lan interface has to be present in the list of the Babeld interfaces.

Yes I used the code from this PR (rebased to master). Maybe I did a mistake. I deleted both /etc/config wireless and network, regenerated them with generate_config, then lime-config and lime-apply,

I am not familiar with config_generate and I never trusted lime-apply...
Maybe #75 is related?
@spiccinini could you try without deleting the config files, and just running lime-config and rebooting? Just for being sure...

If I don't delete the config the vlan 17 still exists after lime-config

Wow... Even after the reboot? So something is failing baaaad.
Can you post the full /etc/config/network with in the two cases of VLAN set in /etc/config/lime
and VLAN set to zero in /etc/config/lime?

I did more testing and for me it works. Can you confirm that it fails with LibreRouter or with your compilation procedure?
Regarding the tests, by myself I am not able to write them, can you do it or guide me?

G10h4ck · 2019-10-31T09:47:41Z

babeld_over_batman option should not be removed, is what permit us to eventually setup and test babel only on frontier nodes, as per the original libremesh scalability proposal

@G10h4ck ah... Rly? This scenario is the number 1 feature in LibreMesh and I did not understand how it should work until now. More documentation is needed (this is not explained neither in the How it works). I will add that option back as soon as possible.

To implement libremesh full proposal is not a simple task, so we started from the easier part, which is solvable more or less just by generating a static configuration when lime-config is run. The other parts of the proposal (for example automatically turn on L3 routing protocol only on frontier nodes) needs more thins going on at run-time, and we are implementing those things bit by bit (shared-state is one of those things). In the meanwhile even if we don't have all those pieces in place is important to keep the pieces we already have compatible with that scenario, so when we get there it is not too overwhelming to make it work.

spiccinini · 2019-11-10T23:35:12Z

packages/lime-proto-babeld/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/proto/babeld.lua

+	if ifname:match("^wlan") then
+		--! currently (2019-10-12) mode-ap and mode-apname have an hardcoded
+		--! "option network lan" so they are always in the br-lan bridge
+		if ifname:match("^wlan.*ap$") or ifname:match("^wlan.*apname$") then


At the first part of this function there is the following code:

if not args["specific"] and ifname:match("^wlan%d+.ap") then utils.log("lime.proto.babeld.setup_interface(...)", ifname, "ignored") return end

As far as I understand for ap and apname it won't reach this part of the code. Is it ok?

Yes, by default the AP and APname interfaces are not used for the backbone and the routing.
For using an AP interface for routing with Babeld, APbb should be used, as implemented in #554 and documented in lime-example here.

Ok maybe I am not understanding. In which conditions the program will get into the if of line 137?

You mean this if, right?

lime-packages/packages/lime-proto-babeld/files/usr/lib/lua/lime/proto/babeld.lua

Line 137 in a8369d9

if ifname:match("^wlan.*ap$") or ifname:match("^wlan.*apname$") then

It gets hit when an AP or an APname is configured using interface-specific configuration (some documentation on the website here) and babeld is also selected in the interface-specific configuration.

An example of a case where configuring an AP with interface-specific configuration is here in #262 (5 GHz radio used just for mesh and 2.4 GHz radio used for AP+APname+mesh, which cannot currently be done with general configuration).

Something like: (the non-specified options in the wifi sections are taken from the generic wifi configuration, see db1c350. I don't know if more options should be specified for the net sections?)

config wifi radio0 # assuming that radio0 is 2.4 GHz list modes 'ap' list modes 'apname' list modes 'ieee80211s' config net wireless2ap option linux_name 'wlan0-ap' list protocols lan # this is hardcoded anyway in ap proto, adding also here just for clarity list protocols babeld:17 config net wireless2apname option linux_name 'wlan0-apname' list protocols lan # this is hardcoded anyway in apname proto, adding also here just for clarity list protocols babeld:17 config net wireless2mesh option linux_name 'wlan0-mesh' list protocols babeld:17 config wifi radio1 # assuming that radio1 is 5 GHz list modes 'ieee80211s' config net wireless5mesh option linux_name 'wlan1-mesh' list protocols babeld:17

(beware, I did not test this example)

ilario · 2020-01-10T19:03:47Z

Reminder for me: I have to check if the absurd workaround for the "known bug" (see #631 (comment) ) is still needed also on OpenWrt 19.07.

@spiccinini did you do more testing on LibreRouter? I cannot understand how it can fail so terribly.
Regarding the tests, I have little idea on how to write them :(

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network shares protos list with protos

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proto-babeld without VLAN running on br-lan

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