From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ia0-f171.google.com (mail-ia0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69C6C21F107; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ia0-f171.google.com with SMTP id b35so1649578iac.16 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:48:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yGGLcQWMw56BwAaV/mV8ZiY18yd8Em5q7TGkxL0h4x8=; b=xvSidypxtQUhfSUfCk4D9rZdGx3ZWOPnfm/oygnMDI8uiNMYZwI07enGaKjXNAONpe DwLPjXhqMG3hBBcATQ4o1J6v4xBqIih+OAVj8x3pEN/fQO8m43r2FZWestU5VF1G7jOz EuFE0Z0JW8bBGLsFbUX6ZXF3rZSbvyuyCjk9Pj1v84gbZlOFb0DDuM4nD9JMu9q/M+Qi Ddpb2YzPkJ7oAw92TMAsx5IaisKl59kEYEPMFMmX9Hpyz0jzlpEx+Ba2mVTPEPJ6rKnd qZrquaoU/l5juj7W8GWg+g7ugYIUd6K24RCGNejB8NERsF7xwR06oDxQsv95+9W6+N4i 5xIA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.158.201 with SMTP id ww9mr8201570igb.22.1353361704736; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.135.39 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:48:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:48:24 +0100 Message-ID: From: Dave Taht To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, bloat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Bloat] meraki gets bought for 1.2b today X-BeenThere: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: General list for discussing Bufferbloat List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:48:26 -0000 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-mi= d-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. --=20 Dave T=E4ht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.= html