Is it possible to enable 802.11s (mesh) on SFT-1200 (GL.iNET Opal)?

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My goal, if possible, is to use the 5ghz network to connect to my main router which is broadcasting a mesh network, and use the 2.4ghz network in ap mode to allow clients to connect and have the mesh features". Basically a dedicated wireless backhaul but without serving both 2.4ghz and 5ghz to clients, just one of them.

I was fiddling with the luci interface trying to connect to my main router, while the opal was in repeater mode.
In luci there was 2 networks on the 2.4 ghz radio, one for connecting to the main router in client mode and another in ap mode to allow clients to connect to the opal (e.g. split radio which halves the available band for clients). Whenever i disabled the client network in luci, in order to create a mesh client, such network would appear on the other radio (from 2.4 to 5ghz), hence the button “disable” acted like a switch. It is like the main interface was interfering with luci settings, preventing me from exiting from repeater mode. Is this a bug?

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Hi

Unfortunately, the wireless driver used by the SFT1200 does not support 802.11s.

However, if your previous LuCI configuration already met your needs and the only issue is that our Repeater feature appears to be interfering with it, you can try disabling the Repeater service by SSHing into the router and running the following commands:

/etc/init.d/repeater stop
/etc/init.d/repeater disable

# If you want to re-enable it in the future:
/etc/init.d/repeater start
/etc/init.d/repeater enable