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Topic: Securing adhoc mesh network (openwrt + OLSR)

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Hi,

I would like to know what kind of solution, you are using to secure an Olsr mesh network.

My network will count about 7 to 10 AP and about 15 PCs running olsr (linux and windows).

Thank you for your suggestions.

Hi,

im using olsrd with the secure plugin and tinc for data-encryption.

tinc is very easy to configure for a lot of hosts
but now, there is no more space for any other tings.
it runs now about 60 days without restart with 4 APs.

i'd say you should use openvpn as a secure tunnel from the end user to the main internet gateway. running encryption on a wrt54g is too slow.

you will notice that even under no real network load, olsr will take up 30% of its cpu just with control messages.

Jockel wrote:

Hi,

im using olsrd with the secure plugin and tinc for data-encryption.

tinc is very easy to configure for a lot of hosts
but now, there is no more space for any other tings.
it runs now about 60 days without restart with 4 APs.

Hi,

How you are using "secure plugin and tinc for data-encryption"?
I'm trying to put VPN between the routers and the clients, is possible to do this?

Could you help me, could give me some ideas?
Or how to configure?

Regards

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