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: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223
