I would like to ask if this recommendation is still in place for IPQ-6010 chipsets:
If the CAP is hAP ax2 or hAP ax3, it is strongly recommended to enable RSTP in the bridge configuration, on the CAP
As far as I recall, it was to disable HW offloading, that was not at that time available for IPQ-6010 chipsets, but was being worked on.
The reason I am asking is that after update from V7.19.6 to V7.20.8 I started seeing these messages in cAPax log, and I could not find any information about them:
Are these messages ok or does it mean there is some issue?
Do I still need use RSTP on cAPax to disable HW offloading?
I do use VLANs so VLAN filtering is enabled on the bridge, if that changes anything.
Yes, you still need that. The switch chip in the cAP ax, which is classified as IPQ-PPE, still requires turning on RSTP because none of the hardware offload features are working:
Currently, HW offloaded bridge support for the IPQ-PPE switch chip is still a work in progress. We recommend using, the default, non-HW offloaded bridge (enabled RSTP).
The log messages in your screenshot have the debug topic, not info or warning or error or critical. So, normally they are not shown in the log unless you've explicitly added rule(s) for logging the bridge or stp topics.
Yes, hw offloading is still not officially supported. RSTP is generally harmless, but if you want to disable RSTP, you can do so, but then you should didable hw offload manually for every bridge->port individually.
The messages you see are simply a result of MT adding more verbose logging to RSTP. You shouldn't have to have "stp debug" enabled for your logging.
Thank you both for reply. Yes, I know those are debug messages, I have logging enabled for “bridge”, when I added “!debug” to it the messages stopped of course. But they were not appearing in the log pre-7.20 even when debug was enabled, so I was not sure if something changed about it.
Thanks, I have missed it. It is not easy to keep track of all the changes when they are fragmented in all in separate posts for every sub-release, it would be nice to have everything in one place somewhere, at least for each major release version.
It's literally in the changelog. On the official website.
I get it that the changelogs are long, but there are only around 3-4 major releases per year. If you want to keep up, it's well worth taking the 10 minutes to read them.
