If you are going to administrate a remote mesh network, the first thing you need to do is setting up an secure mode to access it. The IPsec protocol provides integrity and confidenciality of data transiting the network, although it may be very hard to set up due to the big number of options that can be configured. This article describes how to configure a secured and remote access to a network in an easy way, using Open VPN
In this article we set some of the basics to create an autonomous solar node which lets the mesh network to be created in any place where there are no energy resources.
This article is a brief checklist with the general security instructions for Meshlium using the Meshlium Manager System. Aspects covered are password change, WEP/WPA encryption, hide ESSID, MAC filtering, OLSR secure plugin, encrypting data and backup configuration.
