[PLUG] Survey: what make/model router do you use at home?

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Wed Dec 23 18:47:17 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

>
> Galen Seitz and I are working on a project where we encountered a "bug"
> in our hardware/software when connecting to certain off-the-shelf wifi
> routers, involving the 4way handshake associated with RSN/WPA2.  We are
> trying to estimate the probability that customers are going to encounter
> this in the field.  So far, we know of 4 make/models that are
> problematic and 4 make/models that aren't.
>
> Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability:
>
>  1) what is the make/model of the wifi device that you use in your
>     house?  none is an acceptable answer.
>
>  2) about how old is it (rough guess is fine)?
>
>  2) is it running firmware from the vendor or have you installed a 3rd
>     party firmware like DDwrt, OpenWrt or similar?
>
>  3) Do you now or have you ever exhibited any interest in model trains?
>     (this is to weight your answer heavier for the target demographic)
>
>
Since model trains can be made Turing-Complete you could build a router out
of a model train and install OpenWrt on it. You'd probably have to put it
over in Eastern Oregon to find enough room.

Bill



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