Should anyone ask, setting up OpenWRT on a D-Link DGS-1210-28 Switch

Who wouldn’t want more ports? So when I saw support for this switch entering mainstream OpenWRT, I had to have one.

These switches are pretty cheap on ebay and have the following spec:

so basically not the most beefy of devices but enough to run some switching software

Installing was pretty easy. Hardest part was finding a serial adapter.

Added a header and serial console using screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 8n1
Setup a TFTP server on another machine that you can pull from
press escape during boot
network with rtk network on command
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1 (since this is the future openwrt default address too)
boot with tftpboot 0x8f000000 openwrt-rtl838x-generic-d-link_dgs-1210-28-initramfs-kernel.bin
boot the image with bootm and you are now running from memory.
the default vlan setup is kinda dumb – aparently plugging into port 2 works.
copy on a -sysupgrade.bin image onto the switch and run a sysupgrade command.