oxidecomputer/dendrite

Support for the sidecar switch in the Oxide rack

Is oxidecomputer/dendrite beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, oxidecomputer/dendrite merged 2 of 15 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

Stars: 21
Forks: 3
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 76
Avg merge: 8h 29m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: Rust
License: MPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 3, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed

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There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
Your contributions will be published under the project's MPL-2.0 license.
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Inverted logic for assigning DHCPv6 addresses to techports works by accident
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#380 · Opened Sep 26, 2026

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Deleting a link shouldn't fail if the transceiver isn't present
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#375 · Opened Sep 23, 2026

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Revisiting `reset_all` and `reset_all_tagged`
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#369 · Opened Sep 3, 2026

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Include `tools` dir in shellcheck CI
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#368 · Opened Sep 3, 2026

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Oximeter types probably shouldn't be in the Dendrite API
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#359 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026

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Want dynamic tx-eq tuning
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#353 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026

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Want `swadm` subcommand for simulating physically reseating a transceiver
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#351 · Opened Aug 25, 2026

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Improve types for channels and lanes
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#348 · Opened Aug 20, 2026

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LinkCreate is poorly named
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#345 · Opened Aug 18, 2026

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Uplinkd should probably go away
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#344 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026

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port_settings_apply clobbers link-local addresses added via link_ipv6_create
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#342 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2026

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want a more bespoke container for `PortRange`
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#340 · Opened Aug 12, 2026

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review max NAT entry pagination size
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#339 · Opened Aug 12, 2026

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want newtypes for NAT IP addresses
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#338 · Opened Aug 12, 2026

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NAT encapsulated flows have one 5-tuple per sled
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#324 · Opened Jul 15, 2026

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NAT encapsulated packets originate from `::`
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#323 · Opened Jul 15, 2026

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dpd wedges during bring-up, Unhandled FIFO 36 error, API never binds
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#298 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 7, 2026

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`tofino_stub` returns port not found when trying to apply settings to `qsfp31`
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#271 · Opened May 15, 2026

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Need support for the same next-hop via multiple interfaces
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#270 · Opened May 11, 2026

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LPM V6 table size discrepancy with multicast build
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#269 · Opened May 11, 2026

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Switch zone space exhausted from logs
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#266 · 3 comments · Opened May 8, 2026

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dpd: Want a better API for bulk NAT entry operations
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#255 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2026

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Drop privileges for service runners
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#254 · Opened Apr 6, 2026

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Faulted link observed during MUPdate with limited retrospective debugging
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#253 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2026

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Add generation numbers to API requests.
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#209 · Opened Feb 3, 2026

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Dendrite could take more responsibility over resetting modules
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#186 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2026

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tofino-related PCI error
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#173 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 23, 2025

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dendrite failed with SDE errors
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#168 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 17, 2025

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dendrite unresponsive in racktest.
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#164 · Opened Dec 5, 2025

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`swadm link serdes set tx-eq` should require at least one gain value
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#145 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2025

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`port_settings_apply` does not update tx-eq settings
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#135 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 24, 2025

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Fetching a transceiver's part info shouldn't fail silently
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#133 · Opened Sep 23, 2025

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Track sidecar-lite version from dendrite
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#131 · Opened Sep 15, 2025

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Implement `clear` for the softnpu ASIC.
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#130 · Opened Sep 15, 2025

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Test flake in `chaos_tests::port_settings::test_port_settings_txn_sweep`
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#108 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2025

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Want `auto` speed setting
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#90 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025

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berlin switch 0 not transmitting packets from host to SPs
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#85 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2025

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Swap direction of requests for propagating NAT state from Nexus
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#83 · Opened Aug 1, 2025

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Creating a link via `apply_port_settings` behaves differently than `link_create -> link_enabled_set`
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#78 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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Only turn on transmitters when a link is created
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#76 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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tfport_ensure() failed to delete and recreate all VLANs and IPs
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#75 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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mac allocation policy prevents multiple links on rear ports
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#74 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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Table sync to softnpu can fail silently
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#73 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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return better error message on port config failure
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#72 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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Dendrite could automatically clear power faults
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#71 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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Consider demoting dropshot logging to debug
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#70 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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dpd should accumulate data from clear-on-read counters
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#69 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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rmon counter read is less than ergonomic
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#68 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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vlan support needs to be extended to the port_settings mechanism
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

oxidecomputer/dendrite#67 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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Add high port parameter to nat apis
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oxidecomputer/dendrite#66 · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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