Mesh traffic showing in stats when mesh is disabled
I am trying to understand why I see mesh traffic in my statistics graphs when I have mesh disabled and all my wireless APs are connected via wired connections. Any idea why this shows up?
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Hi @RickRick123
The Mesh traffic indicates the traffic that the EAP using to interact with the LAN, not the EAP mesh traffic.
The name is confusing, and we are aware of it. This will be modified in the next firmware update.
Thanks for your feedback.
Why do EAPs in a location with Mesh disabled, default to, and show, Mesh Traffic?
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I have a theory on this by the way and it may also be what is causing my APs to freeze up so here it goes.
I may have a neighbor who is using some sort of mesh Wi-Fi in their home that uses 802.11s standards for mesh traffic and I assume TP-Link also uses 802.11s standards for mesh. My APs are seeing this traffic and logging it as received and likely responding to them as well as you can see in the traffic. I see no control on individual AP settings to disable mesh as this appears to be only a site wide setting.
I would suspect this might be a bug or maybe something that should change in the firmware. If you disable mesh, then the system should be designed so that the APs ignore any and all 802.11s packets as there should be no reason to process them and especially no reason to respond to them.
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Hi @RickRick123
The Mesh traffic indicates the traffic that the EAP using to interact with the LAN, not the EAP mesh traffic.
The name is confusing, and we are aware of it. This will be modified in the next firmware update.
Thanks for your feedback.
Why do EAPs in a location with Mesh disabled, default to, and show, Mesh Traffic?
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Got it, thanks for the update on that. I spent a good 4 hours with wireshark sniffing the Wi-Fi traffic around me trying to identify possible 802.11s packets that could be causing the EAP610s to freeze.. Nothing really stood out other than AT&T gateway devices are a bit chatty with broadcast 802.11s packets and my neighbors have some :(
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Hi @RickRick123
In the future, I would recommend you reaching out to TP-Link support with your findings. They could potentially provide more insight or even consider this as feedback for future firmware updates. In the meantime, keep an eye on any updates from TP-Link that might address this situation.
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