[Battlemesh] Chilling effect - Lockdown (FCC/EU) => any technical report/fact out there ?

[David Hilton]

If you were to update those routers to the latest US TP-Link firmware, then
try to upgrade you would fail.

The TP-Link router upgrade runs some check against the header (not a
cryptographic signature).

There is a known fix... but I've not seen the code for it myself.
https://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=990534&sid=b54350dd66d48aae6bc0a469d8291a81

David

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 21:21 +0100, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> > Any more technical details on how this is done? Just a simple uboot
> > mod or hardware keys?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm concerned no one yet has provided us with technical detail
> on the lockdown (except openwrt wiki for TD-W8980 but this is not a
> complete lockdown), or at least where to purchase a "lockdown" router.
>
> Anyone with such a model willing to post a detailed analysis?
>
> We order 10-20 TP-Link routers each month as indoor CPE for our radio
> network (1) and flash them with our customized OpenWRT, the ones we
> bought this week don't have any kind of lockdown.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Laurent
>
> (1) http://tetaneutral.net
>
>
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