[119831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Wed Dec 2 21:30:07 2009
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <CEAA01A4-D9A3-4D8F-8159-5A0B3C16A598@internode.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:58:38 +1030
To: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 03/12/2009, at 12:45 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> Come on CPE vendors - most of your run Linux in your CPEs these days. =
How hard is it to make it work? Someone got an image working for us =
with OpenWRT in his spare time in a week, surely you CPE vendors can =
cobble something together for people to try out in a real piece of ADSL =
CPE I can buy at a shop?
The fact that someone got OpenWRT working in less than a week of spare
time makes it totally clear why the commercial vendors haven't done
anything: They're just simply not interested, nothing more, nothing
less.
There's obviously no technical barrier whatsoever (otherwise, again,
OpenWRT wouldn't work). If it can be done in a week of developer=20
time there's barely even an economic barrier. =20
It's just disinterest.
Linksys, being owned by the world's largest router vendor and being
confronted with actual independently-developed working code for their
hardware platforms, have the least excuse out of any of them. Years
and years of talk, and no customer-visible action whatsoever. What
an exceptionally ordinary performance.
See you in Melbourne next week, Fred :)
- mark
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