mpratt14:

Router A: ENS202EXT (Atheros/mac80211)
Router B: ENS202EXT (Atheros/mac80211)

Openwrt 18.06.1

wpad 2018-05-21-62566bc2-5 (current as of post)
also tried other versions of wpad (mesh, mesh-openssl)

I have tried both Mesh only and Mesh + AP.
I have not tried wpa_supplicant.

Currently have a mesh point that is working, but unencrypted. Along with an AP

LuCI does not allow the option to add encryption
If I force encryption in the configuration, mesh does not start up.
the package authSAE doesn't exist anymore...so I assume that I am not missing requirements...

With Unencrypted mesh, LuCI shows association between the routers
Routers show up on each other's Associated Stations list
everything seems to be working, with manual range testing since I can't ping between routers, I guess because of firewall.

the most closely related issue I could find is [[https://github.com/openwrt/mt76/issues/72|this]]

Not sure if this is by design or never resolved.

output of:

iw dev wlan0 mpath dump:
(normal)

DEST ADDR NEXT HOP IFACE SN METRIC QLEN EXPTIME DTIM DRET FLAGS
88:dc:96:5b:91:7a 88:dc:96:5b:91:7a wlan0 333 275 0 0 100 0 0x4

iw dev wlan0 station dump:
(normal)

Station 88:dc:96:5b:91:7a (on wlan0)
inactive time: 80 ms
rx bytes: 7914213
rx packets: 92631
tx bytes: 3602325
tx packets: 5569
tx retries: 747
tx failed: 0
rx drop misc: 2752
signal: -36 [-67, -36] dBm
signal avg: -37 [-68, -37] dBm
Toffset: 2990478 us
tx bitrate: 58.5 MBit/s MCS 6
rx bitrate: 65.0 MBit/s MCS 6 short GI
expected throughput: 24.536Mbps
mesh llid: 35917
mesh plid: 18683
mesh plink: ESTAB
mesh local PS mode: ACTIVE
mesh peer PS mode: ACTIVE
mesh non-peer PS mode: ACTIVE
authorized: yes
authenticated: yes
associated: yes
preamble: long
WMM/WME: yes
MFP: no
TDLS peer: no
DTIM period: 2
beacon interval:100
short slot time:yes
connected time: 4331 seconds

/etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11g'
option path 'platform/ar934x_wmac'
option htmode 'HT20'
option disabled '0'
option country 'US'
option distance '100'
option channel '1'
option legacy_rates '0'

config wifi-iface
option device 'radio0'
option encryption 'none'
option mode 'mesh'
option mesh_id '$ID'
option mesh_fwding '1'
option network 'WLAN'

config wifi-iface
option device 'radio0'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid '$SSID'
option network 'WLAN'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
option key '$KEY'
option wpa_disable_eapol_key_retries '1'
option wps_pushbutton '0'

Mesh Config that fails:

config wifi-iface 'SDMesh'
option network 'WLAN'
option device 'radio0'
option mode 'mesh'
option mesh_fwding '1'
option mesh_id '$ID'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
option key '$KEY'