Was hoping to get more details and confirm things in greater detail (that git bisect of something like 20 build/test cycles drained me last night, UTC+8), but this is what I've got so far:
Archer C7 v2, ath10k (non-CT), ath79 target
Setup functioning well since last build in early September with four units in mesh on 5 GHz and batman-adv routing over the mesh.
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iw dev mesh0 station dumpandiw dev mesh1 station dumpsuggest mesh is up in both cases -
batctl nsees the peers in both cases - ping to a peer's mesh0 IPv4 address succeeds with "earlier" builds, fails with "later" builds
- ping to a peer's IPv4 address on a bat0 bridge succeeds with "earlier" builds, fails with "later" builds
When ping succeeds, arp -a shows the MAC and IPv4 address. When ping fails, arp -a shows an unresolved (all zeros) MAC address.
Edit: Routing tables are the same in both cases.
Edit: Confirmed similar failure mode on master-based ath79 WIP for GL.iNet AR750S, QCA9887 and non-CT driver/firmware (802.11s only and no batman-adv). CT driver/firmware not yet able to support mesh. Looking into "backing up" to the last-known-good commit and testing there. The need for "rawmode" from the CT driver/firmware hints that the mesh connectivity may be handled differently than TCP/IP traffic.
Edit: Confirmed that the newer (newest?) firmware (ver 10.2.4-1.0-00041) works on the "old" build.
config wifi-device 'radio5'
option type 'mac80211'
option channel '149'
option hwmode '11a'
option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0'
option htmode 'VHT80'
option require_mode 'n'
config wifi-iface 'mesh0'
option device 'radio5'
option ifname 'mesh0'
option network 'nwi_mesh0'
option mode 'mesh'
option mesh_id '<redacted id 0>'
option mesh_fwding '1'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
option key '<redacted key 0>'
config wifi-iface 'mesh1'
option device 'radio5'
option ifname 'mesh1'
option network 'nwi_mesh1'
option mode 'mesh'
option mesh_id '<redacted id 1>'
option mesh_fwding '0'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
option key '<redacted key 1>'
config interface 'nwi_mesh0'
option ifname 'mesh0'
option mtu '2304'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '172.xx.yy.zz'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
config interface 'nwi_mesh1'
option ifname 'mesh1'
option mtu '2304'
option proto 'batadv'
# option routing_algo 'BATMAN_V'
option mesh 'bat0'
bat0 has various VLAN sub-interfaces bridged with IPv4 addresses assigned to those bridges. For example:
config interface 'vlanNNNN'
option type 'bridge'
option stp '1'
option ifname 'eth1.NNNN bat0.NNNN'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr 'xx.yy.zz.kk'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option delegate '0'
jeff@office:~$ lsmod
ath 18931 5 ath9k,ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw,ath10k_core
ath10k_core 319481 1 ath10k_pci
ath10k_pci 24591 0
ath9k 100088 0
ath9k_common 11949 2 ath9k,ath9k_htc
ath9k_htc 55715 0
ath9k_hw 348460 3 ath9k,ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
batman_adv 157157 0
cfg80211 231008 7 ath9k,ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,batman_adv,ath10k_core,ath,mac80211
compat 2850 6 ath9k,ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,ath10k_pci,mac80211,cfg80211
crc_ccitt 1035 0
crc16 1031 2 batman_adv,ext4
crc32c_generic 1424 1
crypto_hash 10002 4 libcrc32c,ext4,jbd2,crc32c_generic
ehci_hcd 35575 1 ehci_platform
ehci_platform 5072 0
ext4 382832 0
gpio_button_hotplug 6416 0
ip_tables 10029 0
ip6_tables 9921 0
jbd2 51362 1 ext4
ledtrig_usbport 2784 0
libcrc32c 663 1 batman_adv
mac80211 448654 3 ath9k,ath9k_htc,ath10k_core
mbcache 3182 1 ext4
nf_conntrack 56440 5 nft_ct,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_flow_table,nf_conntrack_rtcache
nf_conntrack_ipv4 4368 0
nf_conntrack_ipv6 4608 0
nf_conntrack_rtcache 2640 0
nf_defrag_ipv4 1078 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv6 4862 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
nf_flow_table 13951 1 nf_flow_table_hw
nf_flow_table_hw 2160 0
nf_reject_ipv4 2147 3 nft_reject_ipv4,nft_reject_inet,nft_reject_bridge
nf_reject_ipv6 2472 3 nft_reject_ipv6,nft_reject_inet,nft_reject_bridge
nf_tables 68617 22 nft_set_rbtree,nft_set_hash,nft_reject_ipv6,nft_reject_ipv4,nft_reject_inet,nft_reject_bridge,nft_reject,nft_quota,nft_numgen,nft_meta_bridge,nft_meta,nft_log,nft_limit,nft_exthdr,nft_ct,nft_counter,nft_chain_route_ipv6,nft_chain_route_ipv4,nf_tables_ipv6,nf_tables_ipv4,nf_tables_inet,nf_tables_bridge
nf_tables_bridge 1072 0
nf_tables_inet 752 0
nf_tables_ipv4 592 0
nf_tables_ipv6 656 0
nfnetlink 4487 1 nf_tables
nft_chain_route_ipv4 816 0
nft_chain_route_ipv6 1008 0
nft_counter 1744 0
nft_ct 4432 0
nft_exthdr 3312 0
nft_limit 3472 0
nft_log 1584 0
nft_meta 3991 1 nft_meta_bridge
nft_meta_bridge 944 0
nft_numgen 1632 0
nft_quota 1712 0
nft_reject 1057 4 nft_reject_ipv6,nft_reject_ipv4,nft_reject_inet,nft_reject_bridge
nft_reject_bridge 3728 0
nft_reject_inet 1136 0
nft_reject_ipv4 656 0
nft_reject_ipv6 656 0
nft_set_hash 13424 0
nft_set_rbtree 2800 0
nls_base 5152 1 usbcore
usb_common 2551 1 usbcore
usbcore 131363 4 ath9k_htc,ledtrig_usbport,ehci_platform,ehci_hcd
x_tables 13839 2 ip6_tables,ip_tables
Output of custom build-time script that captures feed information:
----- feeds/luci/ -----
2019-02-03 11:45:51 +0200
9f520b48d (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge pull request #2505 from aparcar/master
(clean)
Best remote: https://git.openwrt.org/project/luci.git
At local ref to origin/master
----- feeds/packages/ -----
2019-02-03 15:38:32 +0000
e5910b983 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
bcp38: Allow class-e through bcp38
(clean)
Best remote: https://git.openwrt.org/feed/packages.git
At local ref to origin/master
----- feeds/routing/ -----
2019-01-31 19:08:51 +0100
13a4dad (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge pull request #445 from diizzyy/patch-1
(clean)
Best remote: https://git.openwrt.org/feed/routing.git
At local ref to origin/master
----- feeds/telephony/ -----
2019-01-27 16:51:41 +0100
6c2b619 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge pull request #408 from micmac1/dahdi-tools-execinfo2
(clean)
Best remote: https://git.openwrt.org/feed/telephony.git
At local ref to origin/master
.config is my "production" build
jeff@deb-devel:~/devel/openwrt$ ./scripts/diffconfig.sh
CONFIG_TARGET_ath79=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ath79_generic=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ath79_generic_DEVICE_tplink_archer-c7-v2=y
CONFIG_DEVEL=y
CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CUSTOM=y
CONFIG_ATH10K_LEDS=y
# CONFIG_ATH9K_UBNTHSR is not set
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V=y
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA=y
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DAT=y
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST=y
CONFIG_BUILD_LOG=y
CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVEHISTORY=y
CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_REVERSE_SEARCH=y
CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_USERNAME_COMPLETION=y
# CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIND is not set
# CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LESS is not set
CONFIG_CCACHE=y
CONFIG_LIBCURL_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_LIBCURL_FILE=y
CONFIG_LIBCURL_FTP=y
CONFIG_LIBCURL_HTTP=y
CONFIG_LIBCURL_NO_SMB="!"
CONFIG_LIBCURL_OPENSSL=y
CONFIG_LIBCURL_PROXY=y
CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_EC=y
CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_NPN=y
CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_PSK=y
CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_SRP=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ALFRED_VIS=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_alfred=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ath10k-firmware-qca988x=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct=m
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct-htt=m
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ath9k-htc-firmware=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_batctl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_block-mount=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_build-details=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ca-bundle=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_diffutils=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_dnsmasq is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_dropbear is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_findutils-find=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_firewall is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_git=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_glib2=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_htop=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_ip-full=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_ip6tables is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_iptables is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ath10k=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ath10k-ct=m
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ath9k-htc=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-batman-adv=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-crypto-crc32c=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-crypto-hash=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-fs-ext4=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-hwmon-core=m
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ip6tables is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ipt-conntrack is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ipt-core is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ipt-nat is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ipt-offload is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-lib-crc16=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-lib-crc32c=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nf-nat is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nfnetlink=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nft-bridge=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nft-core=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ppp is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_less=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libattr=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libcares=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libcurl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libdbi=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libffi=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_libip4tc is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_libip6tc is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libmnl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libmosquitto-ssl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libncurses=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libnftnl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libopenssl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libpcap=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libpcre=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_librt=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libuuid=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_libxtables is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_logd is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_mosquitto-client-ssl=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_nftables=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_odhcp6c is not set
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_odhcpd-ipv6only is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_openssh-client=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_openssh-keygen=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_openssh-server=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_patch=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_ppp is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-free=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-kill=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-pgrep=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-pkill=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-pmap=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-ps=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-pwdx=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-skill=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-slabtop=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-snice=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-tload=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-top=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-uptime=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-vmstat=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-w=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_procps-ng-watch=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_sudo=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_syslog-ng=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_tcpdump-mini=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_terminfo=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_wpad-mesh-openssl=y
# CONFIG_PACKAGE_wpad-mini is not set
CONFIG_PACKAGE_zlib=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-lib-crc-ccitt=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nf-flow=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nf-ipt=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-nf-ipt6=y