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3 months ago @LoneWolff7 Well if it is working flawlessly for you then it is good enough for your current use case ;-)
It isn't clear from your description, but indicated by your mesh11sd status outputs that the mesh is only between:
Archer C6 AP -> D-Link Repater AP
Hint: Enclose multi line blocks of pre-formatted text between two sets of 3 backticks - I edited your post to correct the format.
I note you have on the Archer C6 (the mesh portal, ie the node with the ethernet upstream Internet connection:
"mesh_hwmp_rootmode":"4",
"mesh_gate_announcements":"0",
"mesh_connected_to_gate":"0",
and
"mesh_connected_to_as":"0",
In the current use case, these settings are fine, but if you were to add a third node, you would likely encounter problems as this device acting as portal will not advertise itself on HWMP correctly.
The correct parameters should be:
"mesh_hwmp_rootmode":"4",
"mesh_gate_announcements":"1",
"mesh_connected_to_gate":"1",
and
"mesh_connected_to_as":"1",
Similarly on the D-Link (a mesh gate[way]) you have:
"mesh_hwmp_rootmode":"4",
"mesh_gate_announcements":"1",
"mesh_connected_to_gate":"1",
and
"mesh_connected_to_as":"0",
This is ok, but "mesh_hwmp_rootmode":"4", will result in more HWMP management traffic than is needed.
A better setting for a normal mesh gate would be "mesh_hwmp_rootmode":"2",
In your current use case of just two meshnodes, "mesh_hwmp_rootmode":"0", would be even better on this device.
But like I said, in your use case of just two meshnodes, what you have is ok.
Note that in "manual mode", auto channel tracking is disabled and you have channel set to auto. Should the wireless drive change channels, the mesh will break. On 5GHz, this is unlikely if both are set to auto, as this means the default of channel 36 is nearly always chosen. It would be safer to specifically set channel 36 on both meshnodes.
Finally note that mesh11sd v4.1.0 was released over the weekend and should now be available on the OpenWrt feeds. If not yet available, it is just the buildbots being a bit slow, so give it a few hours....
LoneWolff7
My home network topology is like this NanoPi R2S -> Archer C6 AP -> D-Link Repater AP
NanoPi R2S does routing and the Archer and repeater are setup as dumb ap. So for mesh I installed the necessary packages and manually set up the mesh interfaces in luci in both dumb APs.
Then installed mesh11sd and left it in manual configuration mode.
This is the output of
mesh11sd statusOn main AP Archer C6
On Repeater
I’ve omitted some information for privacy reasons.
This mesh setup is working flawlessly for me, only wanted to confirm if it’s setup the right way.