Hi,
after some time running router with openwrt and a stock asus router as a dumb ap, I moved on to two 1900acs where one is router and the other is dump ap (192.168.1.1 and .2).
Had a little trouble with both 5ghz wlans being enabled at the same time. Disabled 5ghz on router and it's now working fine from my dumb ap.
Router system log is being overloaded with
Tue May 4 19:07:57 2021 kern.warn kernel: [ 2820.185719] br-lan: received packet on lan1 with own address as source address (addr:60:38:e0:da:5a:be, vlan:0)
60:38:e0:da:5a:bF (read F) is router's 2.4ghz mac address. bE I don't know what is..
On the dumb ap I've bridged everything except switchport wan. I tried to bridge only eth0 and wireless network (both) but then I lost connection to the internet and my router. Dumb Ap is connected with network cable on lan port 1 I think back to my router.
You can run ip addr show on both devices to see which Mac addresses are used by which interfaces. This should point you to the interface that is listed in the log.
If you disconnect the AP, there are no new messages in your routers system.log. Right ? What happens if you stop wifi on the AP ?
With ip neigh show you can see the arp cache of the devices, showing ip and mac addresses and the used interface. You can run that on both devices, compare with what luci tells you about wifi clients and make sure that every device shows up where it should do that.
Thanks for your replies,
I tried a bit of googling but maybe to specific.
The issue with log messages disappeared, it could be because of two things I did;
restart both router and AP
remove eth0 from bridge on router
Everything seems to be working fine now, I'll try to bridge eth0 again later, as I understand this is the switch itself and not the virtual ports. All ports are still bridged if I understand correctly.
When videocalling with my iphone I might spot a little problem with my 5ghz setup. I've not enabled anything fancy but sqm (90% of limit, 300/300 fiber) and 5ghz on my AP is on a different channel from my router. The video stream got blurry and my recipient couldn't see my video clear.
I believe we have dual coverage on 5 ghz wireless from both AP and Router in 50% of the house, could that lead to problems?
On my AP system log this is repeating a lot:
Wed May 5 10:10:22 2021 kern.debug kernel: [58526.263670] ieee80211 phy0: Mac80211 start BA c8:21:58:xxxxxx
First google search led me to this;
last post saying;
brainslayer:
ignore it. thats debug output shit of the mwlwifi driver. it just says that a ampdu block ack session has been started / stopped. block ack is a form of packet aggregation which increases performance. so if you see that message all is running as expected. i dont know why openwrt enabled debug output for that driver. its useless and confusing, but no error. just a information whats currently going on