In my remote system, (see sig) I have a GT-AX6000 Main, two RT-AX86U Pro Nodes and an RT-AX86U Node, all Merlin FW (although I am not convinced that has any bearing on it).
When I reboot the Aimesh System (AiMesh Tab), all Nodes come up, all show WIRED Backhaul, but in my Wireless Report (Addon Script) and ALSO in the built-in System Log, Wireless Log, I ALSO see a Wireless (Wifi) connection to at least one Mesh Node, generally only on one device (although I have seen it on the other nodes occasionally**). i.e. DUAL Simultaneous Backhaul Modes (and not this is not some early form of MLO... this is a Wifi 6 System).
It is like (on AiMesh system restart or single-node restart or just main restart) it establishes the Wifi BH, then establishes the WIRED BH, but does not release the WIRELESS BH, just keeps BOTH.
If I deauthorize the Wifi connection with:
where the MAC is that of the Node, then that "wifi-connected node" correctly (IMO) disappears from both the Wireless Report and ALSO from the built-in System Log, Wireless Log.
The WIRED connection remains 'up' without any downtime, all IoTs are happy and everything works.
** I have seen this sometimes if I do a separate Node reboot either via SSH or the WebGUI.
I can of course engineer a script to watch for this and deauthorize the Wifi connection (as above) when it sees (i) the Wifi connection is established AND (ii) that the Wired connection is fine.
I am cognisant of the desired behaviour for "backup" Wifi connectivity to be pushed if the wired connection is lost (as a replacement, not in parallel), but that is not happening here.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen a similar issue or behaviour?
Also wondering if the 3004 Codebase RT-AX58U (on which it happens most) is more susceptible than the 3006 Codebase RT-AX86U Pro nodes; thoughts?
When I reboot the Aimesh System (AiMesh Tab), all Nodes come up, all show WIRED Backhaul, but in my Wireless Report (Addon Script) and ALSO in the built-in System Log, Wireless Log, I ALSO see a Wireless (Wifi) connection to at least one Mesh Node, generally only on one device (although I have seen it on the other nodes occasionally**). i.e. DUAL Simultaneous Backhaul Modes (and not this is not some early form of MLO... this is a Wifi 6 System).
It is like (on AiMesh system restart or single-node restart or just main restart) it establishes the Wifi BH, then establishes the WIRED BH, but does not release the WIRELESS BH, just keeps BOTH.
If I deauthorize the Wifi connection with:
wl -i eth6 de-authenticate MY:MA:CADD:RE:SS
where the MAC is that of the Node, then that "wifi-connected node" correctly (IMO) disappears from both the Wireless Report and ALSO from the built-in System Log, Wireless Log.
The WIRED connection remains 'up' without any downtime, all IoTs are happy and everything works.
** I have seen this sometimes if I do a separate Node reboot either via SSH or the WebGUI.
I can of course engineer a script to watch for this and deauthorize the Wifi connection (as above) when it sees (i) the Wifi connection is established AND (ii) that the Wired connection is fine.
I am cognisant of the desired behaviour for "backup" Wifi connectivity to be pushed if the wired connection is lost (as a replacement, not in parallel), but that is not happening here.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen a similar issue or behaviour?
Also wondering if the 3004 Codebase RT-AX58U (on which it happens most) is more susceptible than the 3006 Codebase RT-AX86U Pro nodes; thoughts?