Well, indeed things have been running for a long time, even in the 90's, but (for some reason) in today's world, the CPE should be as low cost as possible, resulting in cheaper chipsets and restricted memory. On top of the 90's content, they also now have to include lots of extra's like samba sharing etc, so hard to compare.
I'm not saying that it is not possible on today's hardware, I only say that most of the (residential devices at least) today, have no OSPF support included anyway. Changing them might be an option, but contradicts a little with the fact that no-one wants to pay for it. It's the same for IPv6-intro in fact. Some CPE hardware must be replaced, but who will take the bill ?? It was already a discussion in this year's IPv6 world congress, still seems to be an issue as far as I can see. Maybe the attitude might change due to homenet architecture, but not sure it will. Regs Carl -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: donderdag 8 november 2012 10:51 To: Wuyts Carl Cc: Simon Kelley; [email protected]; Ted Lemon; David Lamparter Subject: Re: [homenet] DHCP PD for homenets. On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Wuyts Carl wrote: > I think lots of them in the field today are low-end, low memory > devices, hence probably 1. no OSPF will be present and 2. Calculating > SP might put quite some pressure on its capabilities, no ? We're talking tens or at max, hundreds of routes (/56 means 256 routes, times a few ISPs). This worked on hardware deployed in the field in the middle of 90ties, shouldn't devices produced today (or tomorrow) be able to do the same thing? I don't see current devices being able to be sw upgraded to handle the demands we're talking about here anyway. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
