wpa_supplicant: secured mesh and WiLink8 issue

[Bob Copeland]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:13:12AM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On 4 November 2016 at 09:48, Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I get a connection:
> >
> > mesh: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:00:00:00:00:00 completed
> > [id=0 id_str=]
> > mesh: MESH-GROUP-STARTED ssid="mymesh" id=0
> > mesh: new peer notification for 54:4a:16:18:ef:50
> > mesh: mesh plink with 54:4a:16:18:ef:50 established
> > mesh: MESH-PEER-CONNECTED 54:4a:16:18:ef:50
> >
> > But network layer is not working, i.e. ARP resolution etc. What's the problem?
> 
> Sounds familiar. Can you check if broadcast packets are received
> properly whereas unicast packets are not?
> Which version of wpa_supplicant is that?

I wrote up an explanation of a possible cause and solution here:

https://bobcopeland.com/blog/2016/10/encrypted-mesh-psa/

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