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How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

zlinuxboy — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:29:00 GMT

I deploy 4 APs at home, here is the cli output of the original ACSP

# show acsp
Interface Channel select state  Primary channel  Channel width Power ctrl state      Tx power(dbm) Use Last Selection
--------- --------------------- ---------------- ------------- --------------------- ------------- ---------------------
Wifi0     Enable                1                20            Enable                16            Channel:No  Power:No
Wifi1     Enable                149              40            Enable                13            Channel:No  Power:No

then, I unplug the AP's RJ45, after a while it automatically mesh through wifi backhual with the other AP

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show acsp

Interface Channel select state  Primary channel  Channel width Power ctrl state      Tx power(dbm) Use Last Selection
--------- --------------------- ---------------- ------------- --------------------- ------------- ---------------------
Wifi0     Enable                1                20            Enable                16            Channel:No  Power:No
Wifi1     Enable                36               40            Enable                13            Channel:No  Power:No

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show amrp nei
wifi1.1:
    885b:ddb7:56e0 192.168.9.148  TWO-WAY cost mine/peer(20/86) lastRx-u/b(1/7 sec) flip(0/0/20)

and I plug back this AP's RJ45:

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show amr nei
eth0:
    885b:dd13:ad40 192.168.9.144 recv 0 sec ago
    885b:ddb7:56c0 192.168.9.148 recv 0 sec ago
wifi1.1:
    885b:ddb7:56e0 192.168.9.148  TWO-WAY cost mine/peer(20/83) lastRx-u/b(1/5 sec) flip(3/0/26)

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show acsp

Interface Channel select state  Primary channel  Channel width Power ctrl state      Tx power(dbm) Use Last Selection
--------- --------------------- ---------------- ------------- --------------------- ------------- ---------------------
Wifi0     Enable                1                20            Enable                16            Channel:No  Power:No
Wifi1     Enable                36               40            Enable                13            Channel:No  Power:No

so, my question is: how to determine which mode the ap is working after the wired backhual restored? stay on wireless backhual or switch back to wired backhual?

but no matter what, stay the same channel with neighbor ap is not a good idea, afterall, it will create unnecessary interference and decrease the wifi performance.

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

zlinuxboy — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 02:13:00 GMT

another question: how to put an ap to do acsp selection immediately under CLI without reboot?

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

AreckD — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:52:00 GMT

Hello,

To view the exact state of the mesh connection, you must first determine your hive name by running:

show hive

Then using the name of the hive that the aps are associated to, run the command:

show hive (insert full hivename exactly here, case sensitive) neighbor

This will show the state of the connection. If the hstate is set to auth it is currently using that mesh connection.

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

zlinuxboy — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:51:00 GMT

@Areck Degeneffe
Unfortunately, even after the wired backhual restored. The AP still choose wifi as backhual, this is ridiculous, any possible to change this situation?

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

zlinuxboy — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:53:00 GMT

here are cli output of the restored ap:

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show hive vhm_hkxd nei
Chan=channel number; Pow=Power in dBm;
A-Mode=Authentication mode; Cipher=Encryption mode;
Conn-Time=Connected time; Hstate=Hive State;

Mac Addr         Ifname Chan Tx Rate Rx Rate Pow(SNR)         A-Mode   Cipher Conn-Time   Hstate Phymode Chan-width Hive
-------------- -------- ---- ------- ------- -------- -------------- -------- --------- -------- ------- ---------- ----
885b:ddb7:56e0  wifi1.1  36    324M     24M  -54(39)           open aes ccmp  00:08:29     Auth    11ac      40MHz vhm_hkxd

Total neighbor count: 1
ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show am ne
eth0:
    885b:dd13:ad40 192.168.9.144 recv 1 sec ago
    885b:ddb7:56c0 192.168.9.148 recv 1 sec ago
wifi1.1:
    885b:ddb7:56e0 192.168.9.148  TWO-WAY cost mine/peer(19/30) lastRx-u/b(2/6 sec) flip(0/0/19)

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

zlinuxboy — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 06:17:00 GMT

I found that xiq could set AP to restore back to ethernet backhaul by setting radio profile.
I did it, but it seem didn't work. after unplug rj45, wait for 1 min, plug back rj45.

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show hive vhm_hkxd nei
Chan=channel number; Pow=Power in dBm;
A-Mode=Authentication mode; Cipher=Encryption mode;
Conn-Time=Connected time; Hstate=Hive State;

Mac Addr         Ifname Chan Tx Rate Rx Rate Pow(SNR)         A-Mode   Cipher Conn-Time   Hstate Phymode Chan-width Hive
-------------- -------- ---- ------- ------- -------- -------------- -------- --------- -------- ------- ---------- ----
885b:ddb7:56e0  wifi1.1  36     24M     24M  -54(39)           open aes ccmp  00:14:29     Auth    11ac      40MHz vhm_hkxd

the hstate is still auth. The little different is the tx-rate/rx-rate are low down to 24M, as they are 324M when ethernet connection is down.

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

AreckD — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 08:41:00 GMT

Hello,

Could you append the output of show interface for that device

RE: How to determine the ap is working on mesh or wired backhaul?

zlinuxboy — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:49:00 GMT

of course

ah230-703a40_hkxd_living#show int
State=Operational state; Chan=Channel;
Radio=Radio profile; U=up; D=down;

Name           MAC addr      Mode       State  Chan(Width)  VLAN   Radio      Hive        SSID
----------- -------------- ------------ ----- ------------- ---- ---------- ---------- ----------
Mgt0        c867:5e70:3a40    -           U     -              9     -       vhm_hkxd      -
Agg0        c867:5e70:3a43 backhaul       D     -              9     -       vhm_hkxd      -
Eth0        c867:5e70:3a40 backhaul       U     -              9     -       vhm_hkxd      -
Eth1        c867:5e70:3a41 backhaul       D     -              9     -       vhm_hkxd      -
Red0        c867:5e70:3a42 backhaul       D     -              9     -       vhm_hkxd      -
Wifi0       c867:5e70:3a50 access         U       1(20MHz)     -   rp_ng0       -          -
Wifi0.1     c867:5e70:3a54 access         U       1(20MHz)     -   rp_ng0    vhm_hkxd   hkxd_24
Wifi1       c867:5e70:3a60 dual           U      36(40MHz)     -   rp_ac0       -          -
Wifi1.1     c867:5e70:3a60 backhaul       U      36(40MHz)     9   rp_ac0    vhm_hkxd      -
Wifi1.2     c867:5e70:3a64 access         U      36(40MHz)     -   rp_ac0    vhm_hkxd     hkxd