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