Subj : List of IPv6 nodes
To   : Joe Delahaye
From : Markus Reschke
Date : Tue Jun 21 2016 12:09:38

Hello Joe!

Jun 20 16:39 2016, Joe Delahaye wrote to Markus Reschke:


 MR>> Presumably it's more likely just marketing since tons of other 
 MR>> routers are also supported by OpenWrt.

 JD> This is in relation to the new FCC ruling in the USA.  It was to stop 

Not just USA, also EU :(

 JD> upgrades that would let the user increase TX power from the radios.  
 JD> The simplest way to do that was to not let any other firmware be used 
 JD> other then from the manufacturer.  Almost all have gone that route, 
 JD> except for that series of LinkSys routers I mentioned

The question is, how long will they get away with that? TP-Link is compliant, but their solution is quite simple to circumvent. I don't know how other manufactures "protect" their WLAN devices from tampering, but I'd assume it's nothing fancy, i.e. easy to break. It has to be cheap :)

Regards,
Markus

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