Hi Bob, I tried your advice in https://bobcopeland.com/blog/2016/10/encrypted-mesh-psa/ . I am using a 3.4 kernel and trying out wpa_supplicant 2.6, so I added ieee80211w=2 to the configuration: %< snip >% user_mpm=1 update_config=1 network={ mode=5 ssid="secret" frequency=2412 proto=RSN pairwise=CCMP key_mgmt=SAE group=CCMP psk="secret" } %< snip >% The first mesh node that went up initially showed this: 2016-11-04T12:33:02.729432+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[472]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant 2016-11-04T12:33:02.804144+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[472]: rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device 2016-11-04T12:33:02.807048+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[472]: nl80211: Could not re-add multicast membership for vendor events: -2 (No such file or directory) 2016-11-04T12:33:04.664526+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=BEACON_HINT type=UNKNOWN 2016-11-04T12:33:04.665503+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=BEACON_HINT type=UNKNOWN 2016-11-04T12:33:06.983435+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: Using interface wlan1 with hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:52 and ssid "" 2016-11-04T12:33:06.987025+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->ENABLED 2016-11-04T12:33:06.987105+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: AP-ENABLED 2016-11-04T12:33:07.004874+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: joining mesh "<secret>" 2016-11-04T12:33:07.006015+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: mesh join error=-114 2016-11-04T12:33:07.006674+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: Could not join mesh 2016-11-04T12:36:58.862178+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: MESH-GROUP-REMOVED wlan1 2016-11-04T12:36:58.862298+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: leaving mesh 2016-11-04T12:36:58.862467+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: wlan1: interface state ENABLED->DISABLED 2016-11-04T12:36:58.871443+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: AP-DISABLED 2016-11-04T12:36:59.397112+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: nl80211: Failed to open /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/wlan1/drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast: No such file or directory 2016-11-04T12:36:59.397807+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: nl80211: Failed to set IPv4 unicast in multicast filter 2016-11-04T12:36:59.402978+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: nl80211: Failed to open /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/wlan1/drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast: No such file or directory 2016-11-04T12:36:59.403550+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: nl80211: Failed to set IPv4 unicast in multicast filter 2016-11-04T12:36:59.404538+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[476]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan1 disabled_11b_rates=0 After restarting wpa_supplicant (with two other nodes running already) I instead got this: 2016-11-04T12:40:17.549010+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1018]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant 2016-11-04T12:40:17.716374+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1018]: rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device 2016-11-04T12:40:17.718967+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1018]: nl80211: Could not re-add multicast membership for vendor events: -2 (No such file or directory) 2016-11-04T12:40:21.911925+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: Could not connect to kernel driver 2016-11-04T12:40:21.912717+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: Using interface wlan1 with hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:52 and ssid "" 2016-11-04T12:40:21.913104+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->ENABLED 2016-11-04T12:40:21.913157+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: AP-ENABLED 2016-11-04T12:40:22.415168+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: joining mesh "<secret>" 2016-11-04T12:40:22.419532+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:00:00:00:00:00 completed [id=0 id_str=] 2016-11-04T12:40:22.419740+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-GROUP-STARTED ssid="<secret>" id=0 2016-11-04T12:40:22.923110+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: new peer notification for xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55 2016-11-04T12:40:23.438482+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: new peer notification for xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:6c 2016-11-04T12:40:36.131965+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55 2016-11-04T12:40:39.639177+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:6c 2016-11-04T12:40:53.579341+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55 2016-11-04T12:40:54.826637+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:6c 2016-11-04T12:41:06.978773+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55 2016-11-04T12:41:10.247987+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:6c 2016-11-04T12:41:22.687123+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:6c 2016-11-04T12:41:22.687351+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-BLOCKED addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:6c duration=300 2016-11-04T12:41:23.169525+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-FAILURE addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55 2016-11-04T12:41:23.169756+00:00 AirFi wpa_supplicant[1019]: wlan1: MESH-SAE-AUTH-BLOCKED addr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:55 duration=300 So maybe your advice needs some extra good bits for specific situations. Kind regards, jer _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap