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[solved] Bricked APs after Mesh manipulation

Ekky

Hi,

I tried to go further in my mesh network test (with 2 AP55C). Initially my 2 APs were plugged in the network, so they were seen as connected in Sophos Central. I took one of the AP and unplug it from the network to make it works as a repeater (with only a PSU and without the PoE injector).

After that I lost my 2 AP in Sophos Central after few minutes. They both became offline. After that I tried to remove the mesh parameter and try to only put classic SSID but no change in their behavior. The LED stills remains orange on them.

I have deleted them and tried to plug them again to a UTM 9.4 but no sign of life.



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  • 0 in reply to reinerh

    I see DHCP discover from the AP (I did a pcap with 'ether host mac_from_ap' BPF filter). I can MP you the pcap file.

    Technically if I use wireshark with an AP directly connected on the workstation I see STP and DHCP discover.

    The same dump from the UTM that is technically the default GW for the other AP, I don't see anything. I suspect a filtering switch somewhere...

  • 0 in reply to Ekky

    Ok, so the AP is still requesting DHCP (and if this succeeded trying to contact the cloud).

    I think there is still some configuration issue on the UTM.

    Is a DHCP server configured for the interface where the AP was attached to (and is something showing up in the dhcpd.log)?

    When you attach a client (notebook or so) to the same UTM port where the AP was connected, are you able to access the internet?

  • 0 in reply to reinerh

    Ok, I think the problem is the switch (managed externally of course I don't have the hand on it). The ports where my PoE injectors were plugged have been disabled. I think that the STP is not authorized through them. The switch is configured to disable port where it detects connection a bit too much 'smart'.

    After moving the AP on other port, the AP appeared in my Central console. The PoE injector gave me wrong information because I was able to see link on my AP although my link was dead...  :/

    Sorry for the false alert...

  • +1 in reply to Ekky

    Ah, yes. Switches are sometimes configured to switch off when they detect STP traffic. That's why we also display a warning when enabling a mesh network.

    Glad it's working now. :)

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