<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi</div><div><br></div>Unfortunately CPE vendors love their own software. There is a move generally to whitebox hardware - but not really with CPE devices.<div>Hopefully when reality starts to sink in and vendor A sees an increase in vendor B (Full IPv6 support) sales - this would hopefully motivate them. Money talks in the end. <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 August 2016 at 15:53, Loganaden Velvindron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:loganaden@gmail.com" target="_blank">loganaden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Jan, I would like to propose another idea. Get the CPE equipment<br>
vendors to use a unified platform for their CPE equipment. Like many<br>
of you, I don't use my ISP's default CPE equipment. I use OpenWRT from<br>
another vendor. Right now, I'm loving the tp-link archer c7. It has a<br>
sane ipv6 support, and it's easy to debug thanks to the interface.<br>
OpenWRT 15 has kernel 3.18, with sold IPv6 support.<br>
<br>
I poked around the huawei modem, and it's running an old Linux 2.6<br>
with some horrible driver for the GPON. IPv6 from an unsupported linux<br>
kernel ? What if instead, they use OpenWRT as their base, and upstream<br>
their driver ? This would force them to improve the quality standards.<br>
I know that buffalo used OpenWRT or DD-WRT or (LEDE).<br>
<br>
If we are a huge enough customer base (in terms of volume of sale),<br>
this can be used to pressure them to get decent CPE equipment for the<br>
common people, not just hardcore geeks.<br>
<br>
This would help to drive down support costs, and offer better services<br>
such as AQM.<br>
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