Setting up 802.11s for meshed "dumb APs"

[dlakelan]

See if this discussion or one of the discussions linked there can help you with encryption

Setting up authenticated mesh with wpad-mesh

Cross-posting from forum.openwrt.org: Folks- I'm trying to set up an authenticated (or even encrypted) mesh using 802.11s. I have done the authenticated mesh with AuthSAE in the past, but, since AuthSAE is deprecated, I wanted to use wpad-mesh instead. Note: I am using Ubiquiti PicoStation/Bullet hardware. I built LEDE 17.01.4 with wpad-mesh and hostapd-common. I set up two VAPs (one AP, one mesh) and tested. With no authentication or encryption (no wireless. mesh.key), it works fine. As soo…