Hello everyone,
I have a simple setup as follows:
AP1<---ethernet-->meshNode1<===80211s===>meshNode2<--ethernet---->AP2
I get internet access through the two APs and the two meshNodes connect over 5 ghz wifi. All the 4 nodes are running batman-adv which I primarily have for ferrying vlans over the whole network.
All 4 nodes are TP link onhubs and running 23.05.5.
Recently I have started to have two problems:
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I cannot access Luci for AP2 if I am not directly connected to AP2. I go to the address and it just never finishes loading. Luci works for AP1 no matter which AP I am connected to.
- ping works between AP1 and AP2.
- batctl traceroute works.
- I can ssh into AP2
- If I directly connect to AP2 using a wifi ssid exclusive to that, I can access luci just fine.
- I have tried resetting AP2 and uploading a backup and I still get the same problem.
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I am seeing the below errors consistently in the logs for both AP1 and AP2:
Fri Nov 1 14:54:21 2024 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
Fri Nov 1 15:02:16 2024 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
Fri Nov 1 15:06:55 2024 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
Fri Nov 1 15:07:05 2024 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
Fri Nov 1 15:07:16 2024 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
Fri Nov 1 15:22:57 2024 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed
Sometimes I have to reboot the APs as the internet will stop working, and everytime that happens, I check the logs and there is a flood of these messages. Note that I have been running 23.05.5 for almost 4 weeks and this has only started to happen in the last 7 days. I really don't know what to do here. Searching through the forum it seems it's related to 80211r and I have tried disabling that on both APs and still does not help.
If anyone has any tips to debug this, would be helpful. I am out of options and I need internet to work reliably.
Thanks
meshing.