As of last week, ASUS made an obvious change in my mesh node MLO network using GT-BE98 Pros and a BE96U. My two mesh node units can now be accessed as repeaters. I had briefly tried using the BE96U as a repeater when for some reason it had began refusing to stay in mesh a month or so back. After using it as a repeater briefly, I was able to get it functioning as a mesh unit again. Did I start something positive with that temporary repeater use?
This new ASUS "repeater" change in the background caused me to check that MLO backhaul and fronthaul was still on and I found it was on and my nodes were working as nodes. After that, I also found I could access the mesh node "repeater" logs after using the same ID and password for my main router for each "repeater" node. I still haven't made any new settings changes, but I can see changes being made in the "repeater" logs that don't appear in the logs of the main.
Some of the changes seen in the "repeater" logs appeared as Ai, while most others list or appear as self healing, errors, starts and stops, successful, normal operational activity, and etc. I'm also seeing codes denoting active ASUS added updates to the current firmware on each "repeater" node.
I'm wondering if others are also seeing this in their meshed networks. So far, I've had no network problems and have only needed to reboot my main router and my modem once after three weeks of smooth running - in what apparently was caused by a temporary service provider drop in Internet service.
I'm actually liking what I'm seeing as it appears the system is getting needed improvements to hidden operations users cannot access or change. I do see a ton of new kernel errors appearing in the node logs including the infamous sporadic kernel 30 error seen in the mains logs. Maybe this means ASUS will soon be providing better firmwares. For some reason though, I get the feeling my system is being used as an ASUS test bed.
