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[Eoin Kenny <>]

Hi all,

The BF2556X has a Microsemi VSC7440 SoC switch connected with 2x10G to the 
Tofoino on ports 57/2 and 57/3. These ports match to sdn66 and sdn67.
DUB0021#show p4lang p4 port-names | include -57                               
                                                                              
                                              
64   frontpanel-57/0
65   frontpanel-57/1
66   frontpanel-57/2
67   frontpanel-57/3

I can configure these two ports as follows:
interface sdn66
 description "Tofino 57/2 10G to Microsemi VSC7440"
 mtu 1500
 macaddr 0071.1723.616e
 no shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn67
 description "Tofino 57/3 10G to Microsemi VSC7440"
 mtu 1500
 macaddr 006d.3622.7504
 no shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!

But the interfaces stay down. 

Is there a way to enable these ports via freerouter?
From bfshell
57/2 |32/2| 
66|0/66|-------|----|--|--|YES|---|---|--------|----------------|----------------|-
57/3 |32/3| 
67|0/67|-------|----|--|--|YES|---|---|--------|----------------|----------------|-

I can enable the port by doing the following from bfshell
port-add 57/3 10G NONE
And
port-enb 57/3
57/3 |32/3| 67|0/67|10G    |NONE|Au|Au|YES|ENB|UP |  NONE  |              64| 
              0| 
This says the 10G interface is now up. 

But from the freerouter cli I get the following:
DUB0021#show interfaces sdn67 | include sdn67                                 
                                                                              
                                              
sdn67 is down

APS-Networks have a script which can be run on boot which configures the 
VSC7440 switch and the PTP commands. It would be nice, if we could configure 
the interfaces in freeRouter CLI and PTP via the APS script, but this may not 
be possible. 

On the VSC7440(you connect via ttyS1) I can see the port 10G port is up 
between the Tofino and the VSC7440. 
# show int 10GigabitEthernet 1/2 status 
Interface               Mode     Speed & Duplex  Flow Control  Max Frame  
Excessive  Link      
----------------------  -------  --------------  ------------  ---------  
---------  --------  
10GigabitEthernet 1/2   enabled  10Gfdx          disabled      10240      
Discard    10Gfdx Fiber 

"10Gfdx Fiber" is link Up. 

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Regards
Eoin