My overall point is simply that it seems increasingly possible to build a better box, with better firmware, than anything out there today - if enough people were willing to dig into it and try. My main project at the moment is finishing up the "cake" qdisc[1], after that my hope is to get cracking on make-wifi-fast[2] - and if someone(s) were to couple that with some work on getting a SFP module that worked right with gpon and other forms of FTTH, we could take back this crucial piece of edge gear from the [crappy] vendors and make it possible to build way better stuff. [1] http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/CakeTechnical [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-UnHDw02o When it comes to making cake work right I am concerned about seeing MPLS or other forms of encapsulation (that obscure traffic enough that hashing on a five tuple stops working) deploy more than it already has.