Hello everyone!
I am really desperate for help! I have a WDS repeater set-up between a WRT1200AC (client) and a WRT3200ACM (ap). The client is sporadically dropping connections every second day (night) or so. So far I have been restarting the client regularely, but I could not get it stable! I noticed that connection drops seemingly always happen at night, I don't know whether this could be a hint. Meanwhile I enabled logging, the WDS interface is wlan0. The logs for the drop are very specific:
Thu Aug 8 02:00:40 2019 kern.debug kernel: [189438.399284] ieee80211 phy1: Mac80211 start BA c8:85:XX:XX:XX:XX
Thu Aug 8 04:31:12 2019 kern.info kernel: [198479.900849] wlan0: deauthenticated from 60:38:XX:XX:XX:XX (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
Thu Aug 8 04:31:12 2019 kern.info kernel: [198479.909312] br-lan: port 4(wlan0) entered disabled state
Thu Aug 8 04:31:12 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'wlan0' link is down
Thu Aug 8 04:31:12 2019 kern.debug kernel: [198480.236486] ieee80211 phy0: change: 0x40
Thu Aug 8 04:31:13 2019 kern.debug kernel: [198480.306388] ieee80211 phy0: change: 0x100
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Notice that between 02:00:40 and 04:31:12 there was no activity on the router. After DEAUTH_LEAVING the client never recovers automatically! After I triggered a restart of the wlan0 interface on the LEDE UI, the client recovered instantaneously (I can attach the logs of that as well if needed). LEDE UI shows "Wirless not associated" for the interface when the connection dropped:
I am out of ideas why the interface doesn't recover itself automatically... any idea? Please also note channel 136 is a DFS channel in Germany. I am unable to switch to any lower (non-DFS) channels, because they are too crowded.
I also checked the AP, seemingly it restarted at arround that time! Thus the question remains: Why did the STA not reconnect automatically after the AP was back up? Is there anything I could do to force that?
Thank you & best regards,
Kristian