IAP-305 Mesh Point working for months, then suddenly broke.
It's now stuck in a reboot loop and never connects to a Mesh Portal. I don't know what changed and I've spent hours trying to get it working again.
The console output upon reboot indicates: AP rebooted [date/time]; mesh link BAD. rebooting mesh point by sapd
Can anyone help?
ArubaOS Version 8.13.1.0 on all APs (305 and 635s). Yes, I'm running management traffic on VLAN 9 which has always worked for me. I have tried a hundred different "fixes" with no success. Thanks for your help!
Various console outputs from the mesh point unit:
# sh ap-env
Antenna Type:Internal
IoT Antenna Type:Internal
Need USB field:Yes
name:WAP-4
ipaddr:192.168.9.44
netmask:255.255.255.0
gatewayip:192.168.9.1
dnsip:192.168.9.1
domainname:mydomain.com
uplink_vlan:9
enet0_bridging:1
usb-port-disable:1
uap_controller_less:1
mesh-cluster-name:MyCluster
mesh-cluster-key:675afd59c6f837d1bd0b28045f60ab5a9dd4bd1a716c1857aafd6fdd3f28518f8f18240e41390db5e175a4dcee954ec408c529ca17f35e4458633ec63a9c984718151fd5d411bf6e688cc290bfde0ac3
enet1_mode:downlink
# sh ap mesh debug status
State: NOT CONNECTED(3), disconnected for 55 secs, recovery: FALSE
Country-code: 0 ("US"), Outdoor: FALSE
Active Cluster: <c204a655e0a26fd5477d1cc6bd3f29c>, encrypted: TRUE, opmode: 0x20, priority:0
All Available Clusters(1):
Cluster: <c204a655e0a26fd5477d1cc6bd3f29c>, encrypted: TRUE, opmode: 0x20, priority: 0
Working RF Band: 1, RF Split 5G Range: 0
SM State: CONNECT_PENDING, Descendant Upgrading: FALSE, Portal Reachability: FALSE
Topology Adjust Scan: False, Scan Times: 3, Scan Interval: 1000s,
Portal ID: 00:00:00:00:00:00, Loop Protect Seq NO: 0, Hop Count: 0, Path Cost: 65535, Portal MTU: 1500,
Metric Reselection State: Idle, Optimize Scan Tick: 56, Reselection Tick: 56, Switch Interval: 0, Switch Tick: 56,
SAPD Pending: FALSE, Received Config: FALSE, Thermal Protect: FALSE, Reboot Me: FALSE, Shutting Down: FALSE,
FIPS Change Tick: 0, LMS change Tick: 0, LMS IP: 192.168.9.41,
Mesh Ctrl Socket: 15, Hostapd Recreate Pending: FALSE, Hostapd PID: 8165, Hostapd Sent Config: FALSE, Hostapd Sync Count: 0,
Supplicant Initted: 1,
Mesh Radios Status:
Radio 0, Running Opmode: 0x20, Phy Down: FALSE, Band: 1, Current Channel: 149/0,
Total 25 channels: 36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64,100,104,108,112,116,120,124,128,132,136,140,144,149,153,157,161,165,
Scan Active: FALSE, Scan Started 13 Ticks, Scanned 25 channels, Curring Scanning Channel 36,
Schedule Renegotiate: 0, Renegotiate: 0, Authenticate Pending: 0, Assoc Pending: 0, Assoc Tick: 56, WPA Auth Pending 4,
Marginal Uplink: FALSE, Hop Count: 0, Past Cost CH: 6553500, Path Cost: 65535, Children Num: 0, Node Cost: 0, Subtree Weight: 0,
Commit Pending: 0, Mesh_P VAP Up: FALSE, SAPD Radio Off Tick: 0, Point Radar Tick: 0, Radar Channel: 0,
Supplicant EAPOL Socket: 16, VAP Added: 1, VAP Name: aruba001, MAC 51:00:00:00:00:00, BSSID 94:64:24:03:08:00, SSID c204a655e0a26fd5477d1cc6bd3f29c, KEY MGMT 3
Mesh Configurations:
Max children: 8, Max Hop Count: 2, Heartbeat Threshold: 10, Roaming: FALSE/RSSI-limit 0, Prefer Uplink Radio: No prefer uplink radio, Remote Mesh MPV: 0
Metric Algorithm: Distribute Tree RSSI, Reselection Mode: Startup Subthreshold, Optimize Scan Interval: 86400(s), Link Threshold: 12, Max RSSI: 38, RSSI Delta: 1, Penalty: 10, Offset: 0
HT Enabled: 1, VHT Enabled: 1, HE Enabled: 0, 40M: 1, 80M: 1, 160M: 1
Mesh Access List Type: Deny, Hostname list(0):
# sh ap mesh cluster status
Mesh cluster :Enabled
Mesh cluster name :MyCluster
Mesh role :Mesh Point
Mesh Split5G Band Range :full
Mesh mobility :Disabled
# sh ap mesh cluster configuration
Mesh cluster name :MyCluster
Mesh cluster key :Manual
# sh ap mesh neighbours
Neighbor list
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Radio MAC AP Name Portal Channel Band Age Hops Cost Relation Flags RSSI Rate Tx/Rx A-Req A-Resp A-Fail HT-Details Cluster ID
----- --- ------- ------ ------- ---- --- ---- ---- ----------------- ----- ---- ---------- ----- ------ ------ ---------- ----------
0 94:64:24:03:08:00 WAP-1 Yes 149E 5GHz 121 0 4.00 N 3m:50s ELK 46 - 5 5 0 HE-80MHzsgi-2ss c204a655e0a26fd5477d1cc6bd3f29c
0 34:fc:b9:31:c3:90 WAP-3 Yes 116E 5GHz 0 0 3.00 B 3s VLK 33 - 6 6 0 VHT-80MHzsgi-3ss c204a655e0a26fd5477d1cc6bd3f29c
0 94:64:24:12:90:a0 WAP-2 Yes 52E 5GHz 1 0 4.00 B 24s ELK 49 - 6 6 0 HE-80MHzsgi-2ss c204a655e0a26fd5477d1cc6bd3f29c
Total count: 3, Children: 0
Relation: P = Parent; C = Child; N = Neighbor; B = Denylisted-neighbor
Flags: R = Recovery-mode; S = Sub-threshold link; D = Reselection backoff; F = Auth-failure; H = High Throughput; V = Very High Throughput, E= High efficient, L = Legacy allowed
K = Connected; U = Upgrading; G = Descendant-upgrading; Z = Config pending; Y = Assoc-resp/Auth pending
a = SAE Accepted; b = SAE Denylisted-neighbour; e = SAE Enabled; u = portal-unreachable; o = opensystem; m = Mobility Enabled
BOOT-UP
NOTICE THE HIGHLIGHTED LINES
APBoot 2.4.0.8 (build 64221)
Built: 2018-03-28 at 20:26:16
Model: AP-30x
DRAM: 512 MiB
Flash: Detected MX25R3235F: total 4 MiB
NAND: 128 MiB
PCIE0 link up
dev fn venID devID class rev MBAR0 MBAR1 MBAR2 MBAR3
00 00 168c 0040 00002 00 00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000
Power: DC
Net: eth0
Radio: qca9990#0, ipq4029#1
Reset: warm
FIPS: passed
Hit <Enter> to stop autoboot: 0
Booting OS partition 0
Checking image @ 0x0
Copying image from 0x84000000
Image is signed; verifying checksum... passed
SHA2 Signature available
Signer Cert OK
Policy Cert OK
RSA signature verified using SHA2.
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] HPE Aruba Networking
[ 0.000000] ArubaOS Version 8.13.1.0-8.13.1.0 (build 93688 / label #93688)
[ 0.000000] Built by jenkins@4e1e84440242 on 2025-09-18 at 22:01:17 UTC (gcc version 4.6.3)
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[ 0.016850] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (384.00 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.055250] i2c-gpio driver registered
[ 18.385691] 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device 7980000.qcom,nand
[ 18.451004] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "7980000.qcom,nand":
[ 18.519754] 0x000000000000-0x000002000000 : "aos0"
[ 18.619029] 0x000002000000-0x000004000000 : "aos1"
[ 18.705703] 0x000004000000-0x000008000000 : "ubifs"
[ 18.842556] m25p80 spi0.0: found mx25r3235f, expected n25q128a11
[ 18.950181] Found AT97SC3203 on i2c_1.8
[ 18.994328] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 19.034677] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 20.732607] There is no gpio reset info
[ 20.800782]
Starting Kernel SHA1 KAT ...
[ 20.835257] Completed Kernel SHA1 KAT
[ 20.882280] Starting Kernel HMAC-SHA1 KAT ...
[ 20.932267] Starting Kernel DES KAT ...[ 20.978016] Completed Kernel DES KAT
[ 21.021739] Starting Kernel AES KAT ...
[ 21.065521] Completed Kernel AES KAT
[ 21.065521]
[ 21.129106] Starting Kernel AESGCM KAT ...
[ 21.175846] Completed Kernel AESGCM KAT
[ 21.225083] Completed Kernel HMAC-SHA1 KAT
Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 PST 1970
Populate AP type info
Domain Name: SetMeUp.arubanetworks.com
Current OEM Name : HPE Aruba Networking
Disabling ipv6 for devices by default
AP-type has_ble_support: ONBOARD.
IPv6 capability is supported for devices
No panic info available
Enabling ble_daemon and ble_relay via nanny
glenmorangie: Start hotplug
per-ap-setting not in backup and restore mode, Backup ENV.
Installing glenmorangie ethernet driver
[ 46.738168] edma module_init
Enter non-FIPS mode
Cfg len is 5527
enet0 bridging detected
Mesh enabled
single uplink platform
Starting watchdog process...
Aruba watchdog daemon started [4 thread(s)]
Loading configuration file of length 5527...
wifi uplink not present...
Terminal access enabled...
Valid SSID detected...
touching file /tmp/ip_mode_0
do ethtool autoneg on for bond0
eth1 admin down
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
init usb modem ...
Skip wired uplink detection
error in reading source file
No uplink active. Becoming Mesh Point
Str Mesh Split5G Band Range:
Mesh Split5G Band Range: 0
copying bootuplog ...
[ 51.580205] uol: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.[What's this??]
[ 51.635485] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint[What's this??]
allow PAPI
set device anul0 mtu to 2000
notify asap_mod 3g no present...
Starting update SBL1 ...
SBL1 was updated already
Done.
net.aruba_asap.uplink_vlan = 9
apdot1x authentication is not enabled
skip dhcp when loop or wifi-uplink without eth detected !!!!!!!!!!!!!
waiting for default ip ready ...
[ 141.970507] Picked up default IP a9feb91b, rand b91b [169.254.185.27]
[ 147.982497] Default IP is ready
Installing default ip.
Default IP comes up.
[ 148.984581] ip_time_handler: Got ip and packets on bond0 Started conductor election 1-0, rand 22
Compressing all files in the /etc/httpd directory...
Done.
Starting Webserver
bind: Transport endpoint is not connected
bind: Transport endpoint is not connected
bind: Transport endpoint is not connected
Put ntpdate to the nannylist.
AP rebooted Thu Sep 18 23:09:20 PDT 2025; mesh link BAD. rebooting mesh point by sapd
shutting down watchdog process (nanny will restart it)...
<<<<< Welcome to the Access Point >>>>>
Starting running Openssl3 FIPS KAT
Power supply mode is DC, USB Modem is not present.
User: openssl3 KAT successfully
Completed Openssl3 FIPS KAT test
[ 164.034514] Starting Kernel HMAC SHA1 FIPS KAT ...
[ 164.077331] Completed Kernel HMAC SHA1 FIPS KAT
[ 166.040563] Starting Kernel HMAC SHA256 FIPS KAT ...
[ 166.085571] Completed Kernel HMAC SHA256 FIPS KAT
[ 168.048551] Starting Kernel HMAC SHA384 FIPS KAT ...
[ 168.093504] Completed Kernel HMAC SHA384 FIPS KAT
ble_ready NOT present @init ....
[ 170.050520] Starting Kernel HMAC SHA512 FIPS KAT ...
[ 170.095445] Completed Kernel HMAC SHA512 FIPS KAT
Firmware AES-CCM Known Answer Test Passed
The system is going down NOW ! !
Sending SIGKILL to all processes.
Unmounting UBIFS completed.
Please stand by while rebooting the system.
[ 629.258360] reboot: Restarting system
[ 629.289778] flash ready,reboot
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Kevin
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