diff --git a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
index 90205e9..6854092 100644
--- a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
@@ -1183,3 +1183,72 @@ test("the board names the machine that is not doing what it was told", {
   await mesh("unassign laptop impossible");
   await mesh("push laptop");
 });
+
+test("the hub can be filtered without severing the mesh", {
+  skip, timeout: 900_000,
+}, async () => {
+  // The machine that most needs a firewall was the one that could not have one. A hub is dialled
+  // by every node at other sites; a machine that is not a hub dials out and needs nothing open.
+  // They are the same module, so a static `listens` cannot say it — and the machine it gets wrong
+  // is the one facing the public internet.
+  //
+  // The failure this guards against is not subtle and is very hard to recover from: a rule set
+  // that closes the hub's own port takes the private network down, and the mesh's way of fixing
+  // anything is to send a declaration over it.
+  const rules = "/etc/mesh/hub-filter.nft";
+  await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"hubfilter","version":"1",` +
+    `"capabilities":["firewall"],` +
+    `"filtering":{"into":"${rules}"},` +
+    `"resources":[{"id":"nftables","type":"package","package":"nftables"},` +
+    `{"id":"dir","type":"directory","path":"/etc/mesh","mode":"0755"},` +
+    `{"id":"unit","type":"file","path":"/etc/systemd/system/hub-filter.service",` +
+    `"mode":"0644","content":"[Unit]\\nDescription=What the mesh computed for the hub\\n` +
+    `[Service]\\nType=oneshot\\nRemainAfterExit=yes\\n` +
+    `ExecStart=/usr/bin/nft -f ${rules}\\n[Install]\\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\\n"},` +
+    `{"id":"filter","type":"service","unit":"hub-filter.service","state":"running",` +
+    `"boot":"enabled","restart-on":["filtering"]}]}' > /tmp/hubfilter.json`);
+  await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/hubfilter.json mesh-control:/hubfilter.json`);
+  await mesh("module add /hubfilter.json");
+  await mesh("assign anchor hubfilter");
+  await mesh("push anchor");
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20_000));
+
+  // The hub's own way onto the private network is open, and derived — nothing in that manifest
+  // mentions a port.
+  const written = await must("anchor", `cat ${rules}`);
+  assert.match(written, /udp dport 51820 accept/,
+    `the hub's rule set closes the private network it is the way onto:\n${written}`);
+  assert.match(written, /# networking/,
+    `the rule does not name what caused it:\n${written}`);
+
+  // Loaded, and the mesh still works: a declaration reaches the other machine, which it cannot if
+  // the overlay is severed. This is the assertion that matters — a rule file that looks right and
+  // a mesh that has stopped are exactly what this is guarding against.
+  assert.match(await must("anchor", `nft list table inet mesh`), /dport 51820/);
+
+  await must("laptop", `rm -f /etc/mesh-still-works`);
+  await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"stillworks","version":"1",` +
+    `"resources":[{"id":"marker","type":"file","path":"/etc/mesh-still-works",` +
+    `"content":"yes","mode":"0644"}]}' > /tmp/stillworks.json`);
+  await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/stillworks.json mesh-control:/stillworks.json`);
+  await mesh("module add /stillworks.json");
+  await mesh("assign laptop stillworks");
+  await mesh("push laptop");
+
+  let arrived = false;
+  for (let i = 0; i < 20 && !arrived; i++) {
+    arrived = (await on("laptop", `test -f /etc/mesh-still-works`)).ok;
+    if (!arrived) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 3000));
+  }
+  assert.ok(arrived,
+    "the hub applied its own rule set and the mesh stopped reaching the other machine");
+
+  // And the other machine still reaches the hub over the private network, which is what the
+  // opened port is for.
+  assert.ok((await on("laptop", `ping -c 1 -W 5 anchor.internal`)).ok,
+    "the private network is down after the hub filtered itself");
+
+  await mesh("unassign anchor hubfilter");
+  await mesh("unassign laptop stillworks");
+  await mesh("push");
+});