I have a managed network switch on my LAN; it is configured to DHCP itself an address on the current network so you can get to the management web interface. I’ve been trying to find it on the (AXT1800) “Clients” page, but it’s not there- but it exists in the LuCI DHCP and DNS “Active DHCP Leases” page (and I happened to look there, first I logged in and ran “arp -a” and found the switch’s MAC).
In this specific case, the switch is on 8.194 .
What’s the criteria for adding an assigned lease to the “Clients” page? See the screenshots for clarification.
OpenWrt 21.02-SNAPSHOT, r16273+114-378769b555
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root@GL-AXT1800:~# arp -a
IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask Device
192.168.8.232 0x1 0x2 cc:f7:35:ce:10:5c * br-lan
192.168.8.194 0x1 0x2 08:5a:11:a8:fd:d0 * br-lan
192.168.8.103 0x1 0x2 00:e0:4c:68:00:b5 * br-lan
192.168.1.1 0x1 0x2 10:da:43:61:10:cf * eth3
192.168.8.199 0x1 0x2 04:b4:29:82:91:47 * br-lan
192.168.8.172 0x1 0x2 f4:0f:24:0a:fd:26 * br-lan
192.168.8.243 0x1 0x0 6a:7d:25:21:29:63 * br-lan
192.168.8.213 0x1 0x2 88:66:5a:56:93:ce * br-lan
192.168.8.179 0x1 0x2 00:e0:4c:68:00:b5 * br-lan
192.168.8.128 0x1 0x2 00:e0:4d:76:da:69 * br-lan
root@GL-AXT1800:~#
Only devices that use traffic will be shown in the list on the “Clients” page.
Can you tell us what do you need to do to display the switch on the “Clients” page? The “Speed Limit” and “Block WAN” in the “Clients” page do not work for the switch.
How much traffic do you need to see to consider a device to be “use[ing] traffic”? The “Status” page on my managed-switch’s router sends at least 100KB of TCP data every time I refresh it. I do see finally today that it’s showing up in the “Clients” page, but in any case I think the threshold for being listed there should come down a bit.
I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand your question?
It only requires 1 byte to be uploaded or downloaded.
The above traffic refers to LAN-to-WAN traffic, maybe your switch’s traffic is LAN-to-LAN traffic?
If your switch sends a request to the WAN, it should show up in the list soon.
We would like to know what is the reason for you to view the switch device in the “Clients” page.
Because the “Clients” page has two main functions:
- to see how much Internet traffic is used by each client device
- restrict the traffic used by client devices (Block WAN or Limit Speed)
These two functions are not appropriate on the switch, which usually does not use Internet data, and the forwarded traffic is actually used by the end devices.
Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, it would only do that to check for firmware updates and such.
Because I need to know what IP address it’s been given when the switch does a DHCP request; I need to know the IP of the management interface so I can change/control various switch functions.
I understand. We will improve the display logic of the “Clients” page in the next version.
Can you use SSH to execute the following command and then reinsert the switch to see if it shows up on the client page?
cat >> /etc/hotplug.d/dhcp/01-dhcp-ping << EOF
#!/bin/sh
if [ "\$ACTION" = "update" -a -n "\$IPADDR" ];then
ping \$IPADDR -q -w 5 &
fi
EOF
chmod 777 /etc/hotplug.d/dhcp/01-dhcp-ping
@dengxinfa - sorry for the late reply, saw this when you’d posted it but was on a plane back home at the time. My SlateAX is on the other side of the country RN (along with that switch) but I’ll be back there soon and will try your code out.
