[Rpm] "Market" information about CPE from residential ISPs

[Rpm] "Market" information about CPE from residential ISPs

[Will Hawkins]

Hello everyone!

I hope that this list is an acceptable venue for this question. I
apologize if it is not. The student who is doing research on the
open-source implementation of the RPM client this summer is analyzing
whether the measurements are affected by hardware specifications of
the platform where the test is running. We are particularly targeting
embedded devices. We have already gathered some very interesting
results on MIPS- and ARM-based devices (and found and fixed a few bugs
as a result) but really would like to test on something that many
people have.

Under the assumption that residential ISPs may want to embed an RPM
client on their CPE to monitor their own network, we are trying to
determine the most common hardware platforms of these devices so that
we can either a) run tests on comparably powerful hardware or b) run
tests on our own exact copies of these devices.

Does anyone know where we could get information on the most common
hardware configurations for CPEs?

Thanks in advance!
Will

Re: [Rpm] "Market" information about CPE from residential ISPs

[Rich Brown]

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> On Jun 14, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Will Hawkins via Rpm <rpm@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know where we could get information on the most common
> hardware configurations for CPEs?

OpenWrt has an automated build machine that creates a binary on-the-fly, pulling in a list of requested packages. The package selection isn't necessarily interesting for your study, but the variation of manufacturer/models could be.

You can see the stats at: https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/stats

There are all kinds of things "wrong" with this data:

- It's not used (yet) by the general OpenWrt community
- This server use is skewed toward developers
- Those people may have more powerful machines
- What the heck is going on with the Linksys_e8450?

But maybe it's a useful quick-look at various semi-popular models. You can look up device specs in the OpenWrt Table of Hardware: https://openwrt.org/toh/start

Have fun!

Rich

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Re: [Rpm] "Market" information about CPE from residential ISPs

[Will Hawkins]

Really appreciate that! Thank you!

Will

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 5:53 PM Rich Brown <richb.hanover@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Will Hawkins via Rpm <rpm@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where we could get information on the most common
> hardware configurations for CPEs?
>
>
> OpenWrt has an automated build machine that creates a binary on-the-fly, pulling in a list of requested packages. The package selection isn't necessarily interesting for your study, but the variation of manufacturer/models could be.
>
> You can see the stats at: https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/stats
>
> There are all kinds of things "wrong" with this data:
>
> - It's not used (yet) by the general OpenWrt community
> - This server use is skewed toward developers
> - Those people may have more powerful machines
> - What the heck is going on with the Linksys_e8450?
>
> But maybe it's a useful quick-look at various semi-popular models. You can look up device specs in the OpenWrt Table of Hardware: https://openwrt.org/toh/start
>
> Have fun!
>
> Rich