1.) the switch is active during boot, and it defaults to all ports on one VLAN.
2.) My laptop is quite agressive when it comes to DHCP, it's connected to one of the local ports of the BPI-R, so it detects immediatly that the ethernet connection goes down and up.
3.) So I end up with the cable modems external IP address on my laptop, and a BPI-R that is unreachable, ...
Any idea how to turn off the network switch in the boot loader?
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Just noticed some ugly detail:
1.) the switch is active during boot, and it defaults to all ports on one VLAN.
2.) My laptop is quite agressive when it comes to DHCP, it's connected to one of the local ports of the BPI-R, so it detects immediatly that the ethernet connection goes down and up.
3.) So I end up with the cable modems external IP address on my laptop, and a BPI-R that is unreachable, ...
Any idea how to turn off the network switch in the boot loader?
TiA,
Andreas
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