[Cerowrt-devel] a smart SFP

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Dave,



> On Jan 13, 2022, at 16:59, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:57 AM Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Dave,
>> 
>> 
>> this thread https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/eigenes-modem-an-ftth-anschluss-via-sfp-gpon-modul.2061989/ (in German) has some instructions how to get root on one type of SFP ONU... (I was monitoring that thread for general interest, turns out the intel falcon plattform seems somehow based on an ancient OpenWrt)
>> 
>> Regards
>>        Sebastian
> 
> It's really remarkable how many places are running an ancient openwrt.
> Starlink's use was not an abomination, but a persistent reality. Given
> how much
> chaos calmer I've found, I sometimes wish we'd somehow started the
> cerowrt project 2 years earlier.

	Yes and no.

> Then we'd be done by now.

	Hopefully, but then I would not have noticed the whole thing and would probably not have participated... ;)

Regards
	Sebastian 



> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 13, 2022, at 15:38, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And a gpon onu
>>> 
>>> https://www.fs.com/products/133619.html
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 6:23 AM Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> That is similar to what happens in some GPON-ONT SFPs, some run a full small Linux distribution like OpenWrt inside.... though for ethernet that is unexpected.
>>>> This is also similar to SFP VDSL "modems" which likely run their own embedded OS as well inside the SFP package (at a time there was even a PCI VDSL2 "modem" that was actually running its own embedded system on the PCI board, IIRC, it pretended to the main computer to be an ethernet NIC).
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>>       Sebastian
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 13, 2022, at 15:18, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> running linux, of course.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/smart-sfp-linux-inside
>>>>> 
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> 
> 
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> I tried to build a better future, a few times:
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> 
> Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC