[OLSR-users] Securing the OLSR interface

[John Clark]

Sven-Ola Tuecke schrieb:
> Karsten,
>
> that is the point where the Freifunk Firmware comes in. Has a cron job 
> which will verify the static route. If defroute does not work - put 
> defroute to a background policy routing table. That will stop HNA 
> announcing too (via olsrd_dny_gw_plain). This little cron script does 
> the trick here, because most black holes are configuration errors and 
> not vandalism. 

Perhaps it would be of interest to have an 'open node' which monitors 
attempts at vandalism
to estimate the need for a more secure setup.

It also occurs to me that there could be a problem with bandwith hogs, 
this of course is not
a OLSR problem but a general 'use' of the ad-hoc mesh by otherwise 
civilized users...

John Clark