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1. Re: Broadband Router Question (Amias Channer)


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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:02:29 +0000
From: Amias Channer <me@amias.net>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Broadband Router Question
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Hello all ,

good point , this pretty much invalidates the reason most people want
these routers , to avoid binary blobs in their network.

Cheers
Amias

On 15 November 2015 at 10:22, Alex Butcher (LUG) <lug@assursys.co.uk> wrote:
> Something that hasn't come up in this discussion of routers with custom
> firmware is that they generally (never?) have support for ADSL modem
> chipsets, so you'll actually want two devices - one with stock firmware
> (possibly an old or basic model) acting as a dumb modem or router and
> another running a custom firmware to gather statistics.
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex
>
>
> On 15 November 2015 00:26:50 GMT+00:00, Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The company / group behind this router have asked the debian team at
>> looking at a port for this one.
>>
>> personally I think OpenWRT would be best suited,, there are binary blobs
>> required for this one as well as a mixup on the CPU serial given in the
>> debian thread that points to a PPC core ( Freescale ) vs an Arm core.
>>
>> Just my 10c's
>>
>> Nige
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Amias Channer <me@amias.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello luggers,
>>>
>>> This might be of use, it certainly looks interesting if a tad pricey.
>>>
>>> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-omnia-hi-performance-open-source-router
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Amias
>>>
>>> On 14 Nov 2015 2:32 pm, "Andrew McLean" <am57762@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the various replies - helpful.
>>>>
>>>> I have found that my BT HomeHub does not support SNMP. However I believe
>>>> that
>>>> for c. ?80 I could buy an ASUS N900 Wireless Router, which has a
>>>> (Windows)
>>>> client which gives the usage info I was after. Not quite sure if it also
>>>> supports
>>>> SNMP, so I could access it from Linux instead.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't decided yet how badly I need to solve this problem, so I'll
>>>> hold off making
>>>> that change for now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Andrew M
>>>>
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