Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] securing batman gateway

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

Hi,


> Batman has a tunnel with gateway but is it possible to secure it? In first
> step only clients with proper credentials can start tunnel and in second
> step tunnel is crypted.

I agree that this would be a good idea. Using the batman tunnels would be much 
easier to set up than IPSec as everything is integrated. Besides that a 
lightweight encryption could be implemented which even runs on weaker 
machines.

That feature is planned and a concept already exists. Nevertheless, the batman 
developer team has a divided opinion about this idea. Some of us (inlucing 
me) think that it a good opportunity to help spreading internet gateways 
throughout a city wide mesh. The others fear that this could be the beginning 
of the end of free mesh networks if we implement such control mechanisms.
What do you think ? Why do you want this feature ?

Btw: Does your vis server compile now ?

Regards,
Marek