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Scripts to build the sudo mesh OpenWRT firmware.
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Make Open, Mesh and Private networks all available on all radios #51

Closed Juul closed 9 years ago

Juul commented 9 years ago

This goes for both home and extender nodes

Juul commented 9 years ago

Since the home nodes will now have two interfaces for open, priv and adhoc the new naming will be e.g. open2 for the 2.4 ghz open iface and open5 for the 5 ghz open iface. I also plan to rename adhoc to mesh, so we'll have mesh2 and mesh5

Juul commented 9 years ago

Hrm, unfortunately we can't easily put the private network on the extender nodes since the extender nodes need to know the private network ssid and pre-shared key. This could be communicated by notdhcp but notdhcp communicates in the clear. Currently we're risking that someone could take over control of your extender node to the point where they can switch channels on its radio, but that's it. If we let notdhcp communicate the private network pre-shared key then we're risking people's private communications. Extending the private network will have to wait until we can figure out a real secure system for talking to extender nodes (probably something like permanently pairing them to a home node on first connect).

Juul commented 9 years ago

Ok. All networks are now available on both 2.4 and 5 ghz on the home node and both home and extender have been readied for extending the the private network. The only thing left for extending the private network is figuring out a secure channel to transmit WPA2 key.