Solved. To figure out more precisely what wasn't working, I disconnected the cable from Node A to Nodes B and C, and then my cell phone detected Internet. So I decided it must be incompatibility between versions of LiMe. Now we've upgraded all three nodes, and the phones detect the Internet connection.
A case study in what not to do: halfway upgrade a network and think that it's broken, when it just needs to have the rest of the nodes upgraded.
;)
~ Pato
On 05/12/2018 02:24 PM, Patricio Gibbs wrote:
In our network there are three nodes in a chain connected via cable (UTP). Let's call the gateway node A -- it connects via Ubiquiti antennas to a VDSL modem (which should change to a fiber optic connection this month).______________________________
The nodes were all running LiMe 16.07. Today I flashed node A with LiMe 17.06 (made with Chef, full LibreMesh, tl-wdr3500-v1).
Now some Android phones connect to the wifi, detect no Internet, and automatically disconnect, and this happens on all the nodes (B and C are still running 16.07). After trying to connect for a while (maybe 15 or 30 minutes), some of these phones detect Internet and stay connected, while others never detect Internet. Other phones detect Internet immediately and work fine. Computers (GNU/Linux and Windows) detect Internet okay.
Looking at LuCI for node A, only itself appears in the Mesh Nodes list, even when people are connected to Internet via node C. Accessing node B and C LuCI works (via casadiego.lan and casafaby.lan), and in their mesh nodes lists, only they appear, not node A.
All this didn't happen before upgrading node A.
I disabled 5 of the 6 wifi networks on node A because I thought there might be a problem with all the extra wifi networks, but that didn't help.
I could upgrade nodes B and C to LiMe 17.06 and see if that makes everything work again, since it seems that there's something incompatible about nodes running different versions of LiMe, but I'd rather just revert to LiMe 16.07 until someone can explain this malfunction and promise that my phone will detect the Internet connection if I upgrade all nodes.
However, I can't find the .bin files to flash node A, and the backup I make of node B isn't a .bin file. If I could find those old files, I would also happily test 17.06 on all the nodes, but I can't find any .bin files of LiME 16.07.
I could also try modante's solution to a different problem, "manually running the script /etc/watchping/wan-ok.d/bmx6-gw", but it seems different than this problem.
~ Pato
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