Guest network wi-fi goes down

[pchadw]

I'm running Merlin on an RT-AX88U Pro using Guest Network Pro to set up 2 IoT networks and WireGuard to enable access to the IoT devices when traveling. A couple of times, the IoT wireless has gone down, and after 'service restart-wireless', the IoT devices come back on line. It is not a common occurrence as I have had things stay up for a month or more. I have now set up a cron job to ping one of the devices and restart wireless if it goes down, but any thoughts on why it goes down in the first place? I'm running 3006.102.5 and checked the 102.6 and 102.7 changelogs and didn't see anything specifically related to this.

 

[jksmurf]

A couple of us, @penguin22 and myself, but not @visortgw, have had this issue with devices attached to LAN ports of nodes, that have VLANs pushed to those specific ports, using the LAN/VLAN menu, in Access or Trunk mode.

If you have one or more of those enabled, perhaps try disabling that setting? Mine’s been incredibly solid since (sad to lose the functionality though).

Otherwise can only think the IoTs try to roam due to in-device RSSI settings if they have them or maybe that the smart connect settings or RA settings need tweaking (I have RA disabled for my IoTs on 2.4Ghz, WPA2 only).

 

[visortgw]

A couple of us, @penguin22 and myself, but not @visortgw, have had this issue with devices attached to LAN ports of nodes, that have VLANs pushed to those specific ports, using the LAN/VLAN menu, in Access or Trunk mode.

If you have one or more of those enabled, perhaps try disabling that setting? Mine’s been incredibly solid since (sad to lose the functionality though).

Otherwise can only think the IoTs try to roam due to in-device RSSI settings if they have them or maybe that the smart connect settings or RA settings need tweaking (I have RA disabled for my IoTs on 2.4Ghz, WPA2 only).

Are your nodes all 3006.102.x firmware?