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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

Hi Eoin,

As far as I know PTP is not completely implemented in APS2556X-1T
I mean there is a PTP driver, but not linked to TOFINO ASIC.

I suggest you get back to APS support and see how this can be used.

Frederic

> Le 10 nov. 2022 à 17:40, Eoin Kenny <> a écrit :
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
>