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[Feature Request]: Make mandatory-rebroadcast roles only possible to enable via remote admin

Open erayd opened this issue 10 months ago • 17 comments
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Cross-Platform

Description

I would like to see mandatory-rebroadcast roles only be possible to enable via remote admin.

Users deploying infrastructure roles in inappropriate locations is a well known problem, leading to significant congestion and suboptimal hop behaviour in many areas (and ultimately the removal of the ROUTER_CLIENT role). By putting the ROUTER / ROUTER_LATE / REPEATER mandatory-rebroadcast roles behind a remote-admin requirement, it will ensure:

  • That the users who enable these modes have put in some effort to understand the platform (rather than clicking the shiny option in the menu and not realising the consequences)
  • That users who deploy these things in locations that then cause problems will be guaranteed to have a way to remotely fix the issues they cause without needing physical access to the device.

erayd avatar Jan 14 '25 00:01 erayd