<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Does anyone know if consumer routers are built so that the radio firmware is separate from the packet control firmware? Or are they monoliths?<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:49 AM, chip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip.gwyn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chip.gwyn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So reading through this it appears the purpose is to keep people from modifying the firmware of the radio itself, not the packet processing capabilities. Basically, don't allow unauthorized modification of the radio's firmware to exceed or operate outside of FCC required ranges. The documentation specifically calls out UNII devices, which is a 5Ghz wireless device. <div><br></div><div>--chip</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kill this law. Kill it now. Kill it with fire.<br><br><a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/" target="_blank">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/</a><br><br></div>-- CHS<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:21 AM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 09/02/2015 09:34 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:<br>
> On 09/02/2015 09:04 AM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>> Buy your wifi routers now before you can't change their firmware:<br>
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>> <a href="http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31/fcc-introduces-rules-banning-wifi-router-firmware-modification/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31/fcc-introduces-rules-banning-wifi-router-firmware-modification/</a><br>
> suggestions on a cheap one to buy to keep as a spare??<br>
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</span>For inside your LAN, doesn't matter much.<br>
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For the edge router, build a pfsense box and use a separate wifi-AP.<br>
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