wpa_supplicant: secured mesh and WiLink8 issue

[Jeroen Roovers]

On 12 December 2017 at 12:05, Jeroen Roovers <jer at airfi.aero> wrote:
> Finally found more time to look into this. Meanwhile I backported some
> more kernel patches and when that didn't fix it, I tried one other
> thing:
>
> On 7 November 2016 at 11:14, Jeroen Roovers <jer at airfi.aero> wrote:
>>>> user_mpm=1
>
> user_mpm=0
> pmf=2 [1]
>
> And then the network block as before:
>
>>>> update_config=1
>>>>
>>>> network={
>>>>         mode=5
>>>>         ssid="secret"
>>>>         frequency=2412
>>>>         proto=RSN
>>>>         pairwise=CCMP
>>>>         key_mgmt=SAE
>>>>         group=CCMP
>>>>         psk="secret"
>
> Setting user_mpm=0 suddenly showed connected mesh peers.
>
>> OK, so there is another bug (or backward incompatibility) in wpa_supplicant 2.6?
>
> So yes?

Establishing mesh connections is still troubled. It looks like when
the initial authentication attempt fails between two mesh points, they
start mutually blocking each other (for what appears to be a default
duration of 300s).