[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman-Adv & iptables mac filtering

This is probably a openwrt question but even so it might have some impact on batman-adv.

I am planing to use mac filtering through iptables on openwrt with a default policy of deny all, allowing only by white list the clients that will be allowed t connect.

My question to the batman team is if by applying this idea and since batman-adv uses MACs to manage the routing; if i will have to white list the other router MACs on the router or routers that will be filtering MACs with iptables or batman-adv is not affected by mac filtering.