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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by scottlamb on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:28AM (#28470752)
To paraphrase: you're saying that DSA doesn't support offloads, and most HW NATs don't do QoS, but newer hardware is capable of it, and you expect mainline Linux to make full use of it in the future with DSA.

No, I don't know of any problem in your reasoning. I'll look forward to that happening! I wasn't aware newer hardware was so flexible.

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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by stragies on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:23PM (#28471420)
Yes, nearly: DSA currently only supports a few basic offloads, and all?/most of those only work on some of the supported DSA targets. I think, MT76xx devices are the most "advanced" in that respect right now. But nothing "advanced" like even pppoe-offloading (yet).

I just hope, "flexible" doesn't come with a large "Difficult-to-audit-caveat" side-dish. NPEs "governing" traffic could potentially substantially reduce the trust the user can have towards the platform.

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