Hi, Fred

If you are working with 5GHz card, please set the mcast-rate to at least 6Mbps.

mcast-rate = 6;

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Chun-Yeow

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, fred veldini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been doing a lot more testing of the mesh links with authsae.  I have
> noticed a weird issue after reboots.
>
> Scenario:  I have 6 mesh nodes running with the latest open80211s and
> authsae builds.  I'm running on a ubuntu built kernel 3.5.  I am using the
> ath5k driver for ubiquiti XR5 cards.
>
> My layout is all six nodes are in equal range of each other and can create a
> nice ESTAB with all units if I start one at a time.  I built a startup
> script which creates the mesh interface and the starts authsae without any
> errors.  If I start with all nodes off and start one at a time everything
> works great.  If I reboot one of the nodes after they successfully connected
> I see 5 out of the 6 connections in LISTEN mode on the rebooted node.  All
> other nodes show the link as ESTAB.
>
> So investigating a little I found some things that stood out to me. Maybe
> they are correct or maybe not.
>
> If I reboot one node and watch another nodes station dump I see the
> rebooting node never gets released.  Not sure if this is by design - but
> shouldn't the connection time out?
>
> I do notice the inactivity time going up until the node is back online and
> the session is still showing ESTAB.  After the rebooted node comes online I
> check the node that showed the inactivity going up and now shows inactivity
> as normal and ESTAB still in the list.  I log into the rebooted node and
> check the station dump and it shows LISTEN.
>
> Here is the funny part if I manually start the mesh after reboot the same
> thing occurs, LISTEN state for connections
> But if I shut Authsae off and restart the same script (as above) to create
> the mesh again everything comes up with ESTAB and works fine.
>
> I can recreate this scenario all the time.  I have rebooted all units at the
> same time to see what results we would get and most come up in LISTEN mode.
>
> Here is a copy of my authsae.conf file
> -----------------
> cut start
> ----------------
> authsae:
> {
> sae:
> {
> debug = 480;
> password = "supersecret";
> group = [19, 26, 21, 25, 20];
> blacklist = 5;
> thresh = 5;
> lifetime = 3600;
> };
> meshd:
> {
> meshid = "my-mesh";
> interface = "mesh0";
> passive = 0;
> debug = 1;
> mediaopt = 1;
> band = "11a";
> channel = 157;
> htmode = "none";
> mcast-rate = 1;
> };
> };
> ---------------
> cut end
> ---------------
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred
>
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