As a neophyte when it come so routing protocols, I have two questions regarding Zebra OSPF on Wdist:
1. Is it necessary / desirable for a simple wireless AP?
It is desirable when you have more than one AP.
2. Does it pose a security risk?
As any running piece of software, it poses security risk. So if you don't need it, there is no need to run it.
As to the latter, I noticed that an nmap scan of the public ip of my access point shows an open port for ospfd when Zebra is enabled. I assume that is so other routing daemons can talk to it. Does such an open port open an unnecesary vulnerability in an AP?
Actually only connects from localhost are allowed in Zebra config, you can try connecting yourself and you'll see that the connection will be closed a moment after it is open.
In doing the nmap scan, I also discovered that Wisp-Dist comes with telnet enabled in inetd. I quickly turned it off. With SSH available,
Telnet is there only to support legacy application. I agree with you and have always stated that everyone should use SSH instead.
I am not sure there is any need to keep telnet uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf. In fact, having commented out telnet, there is nothing else to run from inetd. Is there any reason to keep inetd enabled in init.d?
In your case, I guess not :)
Dan
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