🚨 Heads up, TP-Link router owners:
You might have a mesh network automatically enabled that you didn't know existed. #cososec
Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers | Jahed Ahmed
https://jahed.dev/2021/12/19/hidden-networks-in-tp-link-routers/
First comment in this HN thread explains a bit more what these "hidden" networks really are:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item
@voltronic so the additional network is there to pair new network devices or new devices on the network? Also odd .11s doesn’t do SSIDs.
it's the inter-AP link...the wireless connection between the APs in a "mesh"
@opie @voltronic I take it, not on true mesh routers. Doesn’t TP-Link let you connect all kind of routers to their Deco mesh systems to expand the mesh network?
@voltronic @opie gotcha! Which would be nifty it was an opt-in instead of on by default.