Hi, Fred If you are working with 5GHz card, please set the mcast-rate to at least 6Mbps.
mcast-rate = 6; --- 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
