More slightly O/T stuff.
>> it just struck me as quite ironic really
Indeed - Linksys (owned by cisco) and they often use broadcom chipsets in their routers.. and no there isnt really that many chipset manufacturers, many of them "overlapping".. although obviously there are different chipset versions by the same manufacturer.
At the end of the day much of the limitation is down to the firmware and if the router manufacturer allows access to certain features.
Which starts me on a different track about firmware.. Im not entirely sure if what Thompson have done by deliberately blocking some features of late (DMT) is entirely ethical.
Fair enough not to include them in the web-interface, but not allowing access via telnet into the busybox shell which is supposed to be open source makes me wonder. I know BT Voyager got pulled up a few years back for not making part of their source readily available.. and one of the things I did like about my old 2100 was the ability to access the shell to be able to explore a few more features that werent available from the interface.
