[OLSR-users] Connect via IPC

[Lindner]

Andreas Tønnesen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At present time olsrd will only accept connections from the loopback 
> address. To remove this you must remove the
>       if(ntohl(pin.sin_addr.s_addr) != INADDR_LOOPBACK)
> if-test in ipc_frontend.c
>
> hmmm... come to think about it, this might be something to include in 
> the configuration file(a list of IPs to accept IPC from).


And to secure it at least a bit, olsrd only accepts IPs from local
networks as 192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x and 10.x.x.x ?!
The olsr-gui would need an option to connect to IPs other than localhost.
If you agree I'd provide a patch within next days.

Marek