AiMesh nodes - best practices / scripts / etc

[bibikalka]

I have a fairly feeble AiMesh setup, AC86u as the main router, and AC68u as an AiMesh node.

My main router is rebooted daily, but the node was just sitting there for weeks of uptime. Anyway, it would become somewhat flaky after a while - so then why not just reboot the AiMesh node nightly too and have it fresh in the morning?

Anyway, here is what I did. Ssh'ed into the AiMesh node, enabled jffs scripts:

nvram set jffs2_scripts="1"
nvram commit

And then I enabled the cron job for the daily reboot, and a restoration of the ssh keys so I could login from my main node without password.

admin@RT-AC68U-FF68:/jffs/scripts# cat init-start
#!/bin/sh
echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
cru a ScheduledReboot "5 4 * * * /sbin/service 'reboot'"


admin@RT-AC68U-FF68:/jffs/scripts# cat services-start
#!/bin/sh

# Check Whether id_dropbear Private Key Exist
if [ ! -f "/tmp/home/root/.ssh/id_dropbear" ]; then
   /bin/cp -p /jffs/.ssh/id_rsa /tmp/home/root/.ssh/id_dropbear
   /bin/cp -p /jffs/.ssh/authorized_keys  /tmp/home/root/.ssh/
   /bin/cp -p /jffs/.ssh/known_hosts  /tmp/home/root/.ssh/
fi

Of course, first the correct files need to be saved in /jffs/.ssh. There are some more details here - link

It's also possible to setup some elements of amtm, such as the date restoration, and addons that don't need Entware.

Does anyone have any other good stuff to suggest for the AiMesh node specifically?

 

[CW1]

I don't understand the point of rebooting the router, especially on a daily basis. I have ZenWiFi ET8 mesh system. I'm running the Gnuton-Merlin firmware (latest). Neither the main nor the AIMesh node gets rebooted, ever, and they're both super stable with no issues.

 

[bibikalka]

I don't understand the point of rebooting the router, especially on a daily basis. ... Neither the main nor the AIMesh node gets rebooted, ever, and they're both super stable with no issues.

That's great! The debate about this can go on forever - don't want to make this the scope of the AiMesh node question specifically.