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 time there's barely even an economic barrier. 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 -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223