Hi,
I love this project and have already set up a local mesh with a few
routers. My concern is that I want to be able to control who adds nodes to
the mesh, from what I can tell, just having a flashed router set up with
the correct Mesh ID adds it to the routing table, which is a worry if you
want a more controlled roll-out, i.e. how do you stop a malicious actor
adding a mesh router and just sniffing all the packets (assuming nobody
uses VPN or TLS of course, it's hypothetical)?
I tried to set up an encrypted mesh with 802.11s but the mesh netowrks
vanished after adding he packages and configuration change, I assume
because of the two-rdio issue described elsewhere. I was wondering if
something simpler, like a MAC whitelist or a node IP whitelist is possible
to simply make the network growth a bit more manageable?
I understand this goes against the "Libre" principle, and may not be viable
with a distributed network, but given I do not have the netowrk skill to
figure this out on my lonesome I thought I'd ask.
Cheers,
Martin