Doing good is not a good way to get rich, sadly. Mostly, I don't think they focus on mesh routing anymore - they sell "enterprise systems". -----Original Message----- From: "Dave Taht" Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:48pm To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, "bloat" Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] meraki gets bought for 1.2b today http://www.meraki.com/ years ago I thought the srcRR routing protocol was quite innovative (batman seems very similar) at layer 2... http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/rtm/srcrr-draft.pdf Then they went commercial and kind of dark. And they got bought today by cisco for 1.2B. http://www.zdnet.com/cisco-acquires-meraki-for-1-2-billion-to-move-in-on-mid-market-cloud-customers-7000007612/ Sometimes, in trying to fix home routers, I think we aimed too low. There is not a lot available on their current mesh routing implementation, this is old: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/design/ And it does appear their stuff is almost entirely openwrt based. http://dl.meraki.net/linux/ Their most recent kernel in their tarball, is 2.6.32.59 - which is pretty current of the backports of the oldest stable kernel, which makes me reasonably happy vs a vs CVEs. But I assume their ipv6 support is lousy, and they have bufferbloat issues.Anybody got any of this gear? Their dnsmasq is relatively current (2.63), as seems to be many of their utilities that I checked. While their binary firmware is locked down, they seem to do frequent updates, which also makes me happy. (and staying current probably contributed to their market rise, IMHO) They sure have a nice set of guis. And meanwhile, the core bufferbloat, openwrt and cerowrt development teams labor on, on no funding, fixing the next generation of problems... Some days, it's not worth getting up in the morning. -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel