Thanks for the pointer. I am even surprised that this worked with --cipher. In any case, I presume that template needs an exception.

The problem is that the template returns the none values in uppercase https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/blob/ba18d12f6863505133cde688d5e8188689af63bb/python/vyos/template.py#L567

This is the bad one:
Oct 28 18:03:45 debian vyos_net_name[896]: Started with arguments: ['/lib/udev/vyos_net_name', 'e8']
Oct 28 18:03:45 debian vyos_net_name[886]: Started with arguments: ['/lib/udev/vyos_net_name', 'e4', '00:0c:29:2d:44:53', 'eth4']
Oct 28 18:03:45 debian vyos_net_name[888]: Started with arguments: ['/lib/udev/vyos_net_name', 'e6', '00:0c:29:2d:44:3f', 'eth2']
Oct 28 18:03:45 debian vyos_net_name[887]: Started with arguments: ['/lib/udev/vyos_net_name', 'e5', '00:0c:29:2d:44:35', 'eth1']
Oct 28 18:03:45 debian vyos_net_name[884]: Started with arguments: ['/lib/udev/vyos_net_name', 'e3', '00:0c:29:2d:44:49', 'eth3']
Oct 28 18:03:45 debian vyos_net_name[885]: Started with arguments: ['/lib/udev/vyos_net_name', 'e2', '00:0c:29:2d:44:2b', 'eth0']
e7 is missing e8 has no mac address

FTR --ncp-disable was only supposed to disable the cipher negotiation. It was not meant to disable encryption entirely. --data-ciphers none is the way to go, but it seems you've already figure this out.

In T2584#204474, @syncer wrote:

@Viacheslav do we want to do this?

@dmbaturin, what is the state of this?

@sarthurdev not sure if it's still actual for new implementation, if no please close as NA

There is no business case for mips support
ARM support will be handled in dedicated ticket

@Viacheslav do we want to do this?

This task is obsolete

The issue with automatic offload settings was addressed in T6716

PR https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/825

@StevenP could you attach those files for debugging where the issue exists?

/config/config.boot
/run/udev/log/vyos-net-name 
sudo journalctl -b | tee /tmp/journalct.log
sudo journalctl -k | tee /tmp/journalct-k.log

Yes for Circinus; I think not advisable for Sagitta, but let us ask @dmbaturin for opinion.

I think it would be a great way to move forward on a software project this tied to the hardware. Can you post a couple of pictures showing how to power the module and what the serial port looks like? Thanks.

@fmertz would it help if I was able to get one of the LCD components and send it to you?
I did write a little program that pulls VyOS specific stats and prints them to the screen, it's working as long as I limit the text to plain characters. So ultimately proper driver support would still be ideal.

@jestabro @dmbaturin do we need this backported to circinus/sagitta?

@syncer it is only on current now

https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/pull/4171