wifi-mesh-macfilter: Setting plink_action, when 802.11s mesh-interface comes up

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Fixes: freifunk-gluon/gluon#421

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ar71xx-generic is working

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Does not work as desired.
If a connection is lost, the plink_action seems to be deleted, too.

[rotanid]

did you have any idea how to solve this in the meantime?
first thought: cronjob.
but there may be a better way like some trigger...

[mweinelt]

The plink_action is stored in the station entry¹, so if the station goes missing in its entirety so does the plink_action. For this package to work we'd currently need a userspace application managing the blocklist and tracking station events via nl80211.

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0-rc3/source/include/net/cfg80211.h#L981

[neocturne]

I'd like to see support for this in hostapd...

[maurerle]

An approach which does this using a cronjob and a user-defined list of ignored nodes can be found here:
https://github.com/Freifunk-Rhein-Sieg/freifunk-packages/blob/8e402bc4879e98ac7fe47735e60c34cd2d6c1a14/gluon-rsk-block-mesh/files/lib/rsk/blockmesh/blockmesh.sh

[neocturne]

Has anyone checked if the hostapd config options macaddr_acl and accept_mac_file/deny_mac_file work for 11s?

[neocturne]

Has anyone checked if the hostapd config options macaddr_acl and accept_mac_file/deny_mac_file work for 11s?

wifi-iface UCI option macfilter (values allow or deny) + list maclist should set these options.

Edit: ... which are exactly the fields this package tried to use. I'll have to check if there is work left to do.