[afnog] IPv6 Native Mass Market Deployment arrives in Kenya!

[Paul McMaster]

Hi

Unfortunately CPE vendors love their own software. There is a move
generally to whitebox hardware - but not really with CPE devices.
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.

On 17 August 2016 at 15:53, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jan, I would like to propose another idea. Get the CPE equipment
> vendors to use a unified platform for their CPE equipment. Like many
> of you, I don't use my ISP's default CPE equipment. I use OpenWRT from
> another vendor. Right now, I'm loving the tp-link archer c7. It has a
> sane ipv6 support, and it's easy to debug thanks to the interface.
> OpenWRT 15 has kernel 3.18, with sold IPv6 support.
>
> I poked around the huawei modem, and it's running an old Linux 2.6
> with some horrible driver for the GPON. IPv6 from an unsupported linux
> kernel ? What if instead, they use OpenWRT as their base, and upstream
> their driver ? This would force them to improve the quality standards.
> I know that buffalo used OpenWRT or DD-WRT or (LEDE).
>
> If we are a huge enough customer base (in terms of volume of sale),
> this can be used to pressure them to get decent CPE equipment for the
> common people, not just hardcore geeks.
>
> This would help to drive down support costs, and offer better services
> such as AQM.
>
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