AiMesh shows offline in GUI, but it's actually connected

[AlpineMan]

I have an AC88U as my main router, AC3100, and a couple of AC68U's as my AiMesh nodes. All were in the official Asus 20648 -> 20942 and now all on the 384_21045. In all versions of these firmwares, I noticed that the AC88U AiMesh UI shows that my nodes go offline after a day or 2...and remain that way unless I reboot the nodes. But in reality, the nodes are still connected even if the UI indicates that they're offline. I can ping the nodes, SSH to them, and also ping all the devices that are connected to them via CAT5.

Does this mean that it's more of a cosmetic issue as far as the AiMesh offline indicator shows?

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

I have an AC88U as my main router, AC3100, and a couple of AC68U's as my AiMesh nodes. All were in the official Asus 20648 -> 20942 and now all on the 384_21045. In all versions of these firmwares, I noticed that the AC88U AiMesh UI shows that my nodes go offline after a day or 2...and remain that way unless I reboot the nodes. But in reality, the nodes are still connected even if the UI indicates that they're offline. I can ping the nodes, SSH to them, and also ping all the devices that are connected to them via CAT5.

Does this mean that it's more of a cosmetic issue as far as the AiMesh offline indicator shows?

The switch side (wired) is not affected by AiMesh. Are you sure the wireless devices you are pinging are connected to the missing nodes? Also, are you using a wired back-haul?

 

[AlpineMan]

The switch side (wired) is not affected by AiMesh. Are you sure the wireless devices you are pinging are connected to the missing nodes? Also, are you using a wired back-haul?

My AiMesh network is connected wirelessly. I can ping the nodes...and also devices connected to the nodes themselves. The devices are connected to the nodes via CAT5.

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[arthurlien]

My AiMesh network is connected wirelessly. I can ping the nodes...and also devices connected to the nodes themselves. The devices are connected to the nodes via CAT5.

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Could you send feedback with system log, wifi log (checked) by WebUI Feedback function ?

 

[AlpineMan]

Could you send feedback with system log, wifi log (checked) by WebUI Feedback function ?

Will do.

1) One other thing I discovered tonight from an offline AC68U AiMesh node (uptime = 4 days)... I was able to SSH into it via WiFi and found a bunch of cfg_client processes:
admin@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# ps | grep -c cfg_client
990

I went ahead and rebooted this node, after coming up, the node showed online in the GUI and the number of cfg_client showed only 5.

2) Went to another AC68U AiMesh node that's showing online (uptime = 5 minutes, this node was just rebooted) and there were only a few of these processes:
admin@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# ps |grep -c cfg_client
5

3) From an online AC3100 AiMesh node (uptime = 4 days):
admin@RT-AC3100:/tmp/home/root# ps |grep -c cfg_client
656

4) From the main AC88U AiMesh router (uptime = 4 days)
admin@RT-AC88U:/tmp/home/root# ps |grep -c cfg_client
1

 

[AlpineMan]

Hmmm...just checked this morning...2 offline nodes (all of which I can ping and SSH into) and 1 online node (I can't ping or SSH into, but I can ping the clients attached to this node)

 

[Pergola Fabio]

Hi @AlpineMan , did you ever figure out the issue? I see exact same behaviour

 

[SignedAdam]

This is why we should have a reset to default in the web GUI of the node, so annoying when these things go ghost