I'm having a problem creating a mesh network with an Archer C7 v2 & TL-WDR3600 v1. AFAIK I've set them both up with the same wireless & mesh config on their 5GHz radio, the mesh interface comes up on the WDR3600 but not the Archer C7. The wireless network comes up for the Archer C7, but not the mesh interface. I also tried the mesh on the 2.4GHz radio but had the same result.
They're both running OpenWrt 2022.03 with wpad-mesh-wolfssl 2022-01-16-cff80b4f-12.
Archer C7
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11a'
option txpower '17'
option country 'US'
option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0'
option cell_density '0'
option htmode 'HT20'
option channel '48'
config wifi-iface 'wifinet0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'Van Houten'
option key 'xx<same passwd as on WDR3600>xx'
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11g'
option htmode 'HT20'
option country 'US'
option channel 'auto'
option txpower '23'
option path 'platform/ahb/18100000.wmac'
option disabled '0'
config wifi-iface 'wifinet1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'Bouvier'
option encryption 'psk2'
option key 'xxpass1xx
config wifi-iface 'mesh'
option device 'radio0'
option mode 'mesh'
option ifname 'mesh0'
option encryption 'sae'
option mesh_id 'rc-mesh'
option mesh_fwding '1'
option mesh_rssi_threshold '0'
option network 'lan'
option key 'xx<same mesh passwd as on WDR3600>xx'
WDR3600:
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'Krustyland'
option key 'xxpass0xx'
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11a'`
option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0'
option htmode 'HT20'
option country 'US'
option cell_density '0'
option channel '48'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option key 'xx<same passwd as on Archer C7>xx'
option ssid 'Van Houten'
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
config wifi-device 'radio2'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11g'
option path 'platform/ahb/18100000.wmac'
option cell_density '0'
option channel 'auto'
option country 'US'
option htmode 'HT20'
option disabled '1'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio2'
option device 'radio2'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid 'gauley'
option key 'xxpass2xx'
option encryption 'sae'
option disabled '1'
config wifi-iface 'mesh'
option device 'radio1'
option mode 'mesh'
option ifname 'mesh0'
option encryption 'sae'
option mesh_id 'rc-mesh'
option mesh_fwding '1'
option mesh_rssi_threshold '0'
option network 'lan'
option key 'xx<same mesh passwd as on Archer C7>xx'
Archer C7 devices:
# iw dev
phy#1
Interface wlan1
ifindex 25
wdev 0x100000007
addr a4:2b:b0:a5:31:15
ssid Bouvier
type AP
channel 11 (2462 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2462 MHz
txpower 23.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcoltx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 64 0 0 0 0 11246 64
phy#0
Interface wlan0-1
ifindex 26
wdev 0xd
addr a6:2b:b0:a5:31:14
ssid Van Houten
type AP
channel 48 (5240 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 5240 MHz
txpower 17.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcoltx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 7436 0 0 0 0 1461358 7436
Interface mesh0
ifindex 24
wdev 0xc
addr a4:2b:b0:a5:31:14
type mesh point
txpower 0.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcoltx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
WDR3600 devices:
# iw dev
phy#1
Interface wlan1-1
ifindex 27
wdev 0x10000000f
addr c2:4a:00:38:d2:6e
ssid Van Houten
type AP
channel 48 (5240 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 5240 MHz
txpower 14.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcoltx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Interface mesh0
ifindex 25
wdev 0x10000000e
addr c0:4a:00:38:d2:6e
type mesh point
channel 48 (5240 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 5240 MHz
txpower 14.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcoltx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 7471 0 0 0 0 1587694 7471
phy#0
Interface wlan0
ifindex 26
wdev 0x6
addr c0:4a:00:38:d2:6d
ssid Krustyland
type AP
channel 1 (2412 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2412 MHz
txpower 19.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcoltx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0