802.11s compatibility with Linux/OpenWRT

[Adrian Chadd]

It doesn't interoperate. Someone needs to grab the freebsd-mesh stuff and
fix it up. ;)

-a

On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 02:33, <freebsd-wireless at zx81.pw> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Looking at the FreeBSD/mesh wiki page (
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Mesh ) it says:
>
> "Development is occurring at the FreeBSD HEAD branch and an experimental
> support is present on FreeBSD 8.0."
> and
> "Given that the Linux 802.11s implementation (in wireless-testing) was
> based on an early draft, we can't talk with Linux mesh nodes."
>
> I have a router (Mikrotik RB435G with an AR9220 card with OpenWRT
> installed) and a FreeBSD12 machine with PCIe-based AR9580 card.
>
> With mesh set up on the FreeBSD machine, a scan on the router lists the
> mesh network but can't ever join.
> Correspondingly, with mesh set up on the router, a scan on the FreeBSD
> machine doesn't list the router's mesh.
>
> Does anyone have any confirmation of working interaction between FreeBSD
> and Linux/OpenWRT-based nodes?
>
> Thanks
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