I will try the mcast-rate = 6; and let you know the results

Thanks


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Yeoh Chun-Yeow <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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
> >
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