Comcast's IPv6 CPE selection

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Apr 26 20:58:38 CEST 2010


On 04/26/10 06:45, Dave Taht wrote:
> On 04/24/2010 11:09 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> And all of this also applies only to the command-line interface
>>> to dd-wrt.  The GUI interface would have to be modified to support
>>> all of the IPv6 utilities (like traceroute6) before you could
>>> point to DD-WRT and call it "grandparent ready" and that is not easy
>>> as it's written in an obfuscated manner (to prevent copying, the
>>> GUI is NOT under the GPL like the rest of DD-WRT is)  However, this
>>> isn't any different than OpenWRT, which while it has a good
>>> command-line implementation of IPv6, none of the GUIs that
>>> are out there for OpenWRT support it. (although, those ARE
>>> easily modified)
>>>      
>> Agreed on both points. I used to use openwrt, and it has some things to
>> recommend it. However (AFAICT) the development has stalled, and they are
>> definitely NOT focusing on newer hardware which means my latest CPE has
>> no openwrt version available for it.
>>    
> 
> I don't quite "get" where you say openwrt has stalled. 

Sorry, I wasn't clear, I was referring to development for new hardware.
I can't run it on my newest AP, so it's not relevant to me. :)


Doug



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