Figuring out if the client is really connected with WPA3 can be a bit difficult.
See discussion in WPA3: Can I see which encryption each client is using?
I have tested pure WPA3 so no doubt. I just wonder if WPA3 is by design incompatible with roaming or if there is a bug.
Edit: Based on that WPA3 is missing 802.11r support.
Do any of the new builds support more than 32-38 clients? I've tried the stock 19.07, r10879, r12106 and few others but they all end up with this error. To avoid issues with other config, after a factory reset, I login and only setup my 2.4G and 5G wifi and I can't get all my devices to connect. I get keep getting the following in the syslog and my /tmp/dhcp goes upto 38 records and stops growing.
Fri Jan 24 02:56:13 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 kern.warn kernel: [ 726.980751] ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: refusing to associate station: too many connected already (32)
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 kern.warn kernel: [ 726.984495] ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: refusing to associate station: too many connected already (32)
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 kern.warn kernel: [ 726.992537] ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: refusing to associate station: too many connected already (32)
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Fri Jan 24 02:56:14 2020 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: Could not add STA to kernel driver
Have you tried playing with maxassoc in /etc/config/wireless?
Something like:
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
...
option maxassoc '255'
And the same for remaining interfaces.
Other option would be hostapd.conf and max_num_sta.
For those considering master build version from 20200123 seems to have performance issue. Might be related to Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984).
One needs to look at /proc/softirqs now to tell if for both cores are used...
Tried that and no luck. When the limit is reached my wired devices with with static IP address also get blocked.
Have you checked size of your DHCP scope?
Assuming 19.07 is using ath10k-ct driver and firmware, you should see this response (and the link he provides in it) by the ct dev to increase the number of stations beyond 32.
HTH
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Thank you, this looks like what I needed.
What is the recommended way to update/upgrade all upgradable packages with this build?
The wiki says
The package repositories in the development snapshots are updated by the build bots to new versions very often, so it's very likely you won't be able to upgrade some packages due to broken dependencies with kernel or kernel-related packages. In that case, it's recommended to use the Image Builder and make a new firmware image with all packages you need and flash that instead of upgrading through opkg.
So I've to upgrade each time via flashing? What percentage of my settings, certificates and so on will remain? Or is it OK to use
opkg list-upgradable | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | xargs opkg upgrade
?
The recommended way is not to do that at all, ever. Flash a newer snapshot, but don't try to upgrade packages en masse.
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With what frequency do you upgrade your router? What settings will I have to apply again?
Well, I build a new build every few days, so I build quite frequently.
All your settings should survive sysupgrade, but you need to reinstall the possible extra packages.
What frequency would you recommend to do (security) updates? So I'd have to reinstall OpenVPN, ACME, their settings and certificates and so on?
SSH certificates in your user profile don’t by default (If you use those to log into your router), but it’s easy to add them to the list of files to keep during an upgrade
No.
I build only for devices that I personally have (R7800, WNDR3700/v2/3800 and WRT3200ACM)
But you can freely download my R7800 build with scripts and patches, and just modify the device selection to EA8500 (in my .config.init) and then use the scripts to build it for EA8500 by yourself.
Just edit these lines:
# Use "make defconfig" to expand this to a full .config
CONFIG_TARGET_ipq806x=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ipq806x_generic=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ipq806x_generic_DEVICE_netgear_r7800=y
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Are the stable openwrt-19.07 builds on kernel 4.19 or 4.14?