[OpenWrt Wiki] Linux Network Interfaces
openwrt.org › networking › networkPhysical Network Interfaces. eth0, eth8, radio0, wlan19, .. always represent an actual network hardware device such as a NIC, WNIC or some other kind of Modem. As soon as the device driver is loaded into the Kernel a corresponding physical network interface becomes present and available. Any physical network interface is a named software ...
[OpenWrt Wiki] Use cdc_ether driver based dongles for WAN ...
openwrt.org › docs › guide-userJun 22, 2021 · Use cdc_ether driver based dongles for WAN connection This recipe explains how to setup and configure OpenWrt for using a USB 4G/3G modem based on cdc_ether driver. This section has been tested on the following release: root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/openwrt_release DISTRIB_ID='OpenWrt' DISTRIB_RELEASE='SNAPSHOT' DISTRIB_REVISION='r13212-300b7fe85a' DISTRIB_TARGET='ath79/generic' DISTRIB_ARCH='mips ...
[OpenWrt Wiki] Ethernet Network Switch
openwrt.org › docs › techrefApr 20, 2021 · The preferred contemporary driver architecture for ethernet switches in the Linux kernel is DSA (distributed switch architecture).. For a user the main difference to past OpenWrt switch drivers is that all the switch ports that on a consumer router have names such as LAN1, LAN2, … or WAN also appear as independent network interfaces in userspace and those can be handled like any other ...