Hi, we built a brand new 99 room hotel. Zhone GPON network on top of which is our Open-Mesh wifi hardware, about 70 waps total. Problem seems to be that waps are creating major broadcast storm creating mac flapping on the GPON network ports causing major instability across entire vlan. We're seeing loads of BA:BE... mac addresses in the GPON arp table. Open-Mesh says there is no way to turn off the meshing capability of their waps, however, the waps should not mesh if they have a solid wired link, which our waps do have. We're using the open-mesh 6.0 beta firmware which someone at open-mesh suggested we try in an attempt to solve another issue where private DNS resolution was failing for remote subnets. We're not sure if we had the mac flapping issue before the 6.0 upgrade.
We've installed open-mesh at other hotels where instead of GPON there is standard Cisco managed switches, experienced what seems to be the same problem as above and resolved it by disabling spanning tree on the wap ports. With the Zhone GPON network, however, Zhone said there is no equivalent to disabling spanning tree.
We've exhausted every support avenue we can think of aside from this forum. We'll have to rip out open-mesh if we don't find a fix fast. Hoping to find some help here as Open-Mesh firmware is based on open-wrt. Thanks! HELP PLEASE!!
(Last edited by zachb on 24 Nov 2015, 17:51)