Advanced networking tab

[aanon4]

Proposing a new "Advanced Network" tab on supported devices (although I'm aware this is adding complexity). This provide UI access to features already available by editing configuration files. Two features are surfaced:

1. The ability to reassign the default purpose of the standard ports on supported multi-port devices.
2. The ability to create xlinks (vlans which act like vlan2) which we're using for wiring up backbone links in AREDN networks.

These features are currently supported by installing a seperate package, and we can continue to do that if people prefer, but I thought it might be a more generally useful feature to expose.

Visually, it looks like this:

Currently supported on the hAP ac2 and hAP ac3.

[dman776]

I like the concept. Is a top-level menu the correct place for this? Or should it be under Advanced Config somewhere?

[aanon4]

We dont really have any other good UI spots for it. We have the "user" stuff (e.g. status page + other pages which dont require the admin password), the admin stuff (where I stuck this) and the advanced options page which is just a list of properties. You cant really put this UI there, and we dont have any call outs to new pages from that page - it wouldnt fit with the way that all works. So ... it ended up here as the best option.

[k1ky]

I believe this would satisfy my feature request #19?

[aanon4]

@k1ky This is only for devices which support the new Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA) in OpenWRT I'm afraid.