BPI-W2 kernel image with both ethernets and iptables support

Banana Pi Router design BPI-W2(RTD1296)
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Anyone has an updated kernel image that supports both ethernet (eth0, eth1) and iptables/ip6tables on bpi-w2 board. Without these together I can’t use this board a a router/firewall device.

So far I have tried these:

(1) I have installed ubuntu-16.04 with kernel Image(uImage) 4.4.18-ning

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.4.18-ning #1 SMP Wed May 23 14:55:41 CST 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

This shows both ethernet (eth0, eth1), but lacks iptables table support.

(2)Install ubuntu-18.04 with kernel Image(uImage) 4.9.119-BPI-W2-Kernel

# uname -a
Linux bpi-iot-ros-ai 4.9.119-BPI-W2-Kernel #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 14 17:32:19 CST 2018 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

This doesn’t show eth1 (only eth0). It does have iptables supports. But the lack of second active ethernet port is disappointing.

Any suggestions?

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4.4.18-ning with IPTables: Adding modules to kernel

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The issue has not been fixed in the legacy 4.9.119 kernel

as of end of December 2019. The 2nd ethernet port (eth1) doesn’t bring up, the 1st one (eth0) has a strange mac address (link/ether 00:10:20:30:40:50) and the signaling LEDs do not work.

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Having compared the 4.4 kernel vs 4.9 kernel sources : BPI-W2-bsp# egrep CONFIG_RTD /Source/SINOVOIP-4.4_public/BPI-W2-bsp-4.4_public/linux-rt/.config CONFIG_RTD129X=y CONFIG_RTD_1295_HWNAT=y CONFIG_RTD_1295_MAC0_SGMII_LINK_MON=y

The 4.9 kernel config is missing the above and is reduced to only : BPI-W2-bsp/linux-rtk/.config
CONFIG_RTD1XXX_POWER=y CONFIG_RTD129x=y rem CONFIG_RTD129x_FPGA is not set

The “enable hwnat to support eth1 & eth2” module is missing in the 4.9 kernel :

When will it finally be fixed?

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