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nklb
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Modified Source

Quite likely they didn't even modify the Busybox source, but that still doesn't excuse them from the right of not distributing the code to at least show this.

My guess is that we will see a web or ftp server appear shortly with the code.
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My guess is that we will see a web or ftp server appear shortly with the code.
No. Verizon will just announce that the firmware is in a "beta test" stage and that the source will be released when it's done. No one says they have to finish.

Or they can encrypt relevant bits of the source they don't want to release. VPinMAME gets away with that one.

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said by djrobx See Profile :

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My guess is that we will see a web or ftp server appear shortly with the code.
No. Verizon will just announce that the firmware is in a "beta test" stage and that the source will be released when it's done. No one says they have to finish.

Or they can encrypt relevant bits of the source they don't want to release. VPinMAME gets away with that one.

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Wrong on both counts. A.) They distribute the router, whether they consider it "done" or not is irrelevant, they need to comply with BusyBox's terms because they have distributed it. B.) All code must be in legible, as-it-was-developed form.

Both of these are spelled out quite explicitly in the GPL license.
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tobycable1

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here's the code:
»opensource.actiontec.com/index.html

I don't know if it's new or not but I stumbled across it moments ago on their site and knew I'd seen this article, etc.


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said by tobycable1 See Profile :

here's the code:
»opensource.actiontec.com/index.html

I don't know if it's new or not but I stumbled across it moments ago on their site and knew I'd seen this article, etc.
looks like Actiontec is doing the same STUPID crap as JUNGO the people that made the firmware on the MI424-WR ,they want 15.00 in a certified check so they will send you cd. the files for download are coming down at 8kb restricted in speed and in content.

can't wait till someone re-write the code on that hardware and turns it loose.

here's jungo site
»www.jungo.com/openrg/release_notes_v4_8.html

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said by rtcy :

Looks like Actiontec is doing the same STUPID crap as JUNGO the people that made the firmware on the MI424-WR ,they want 15.00 in a certified check so they will send you cd. the files for download are coming down at 8kb restricted in speed and in content.
I think they Just hosted it on some shitty box with a 1.5 meg QoS limit or something because I just opened 150 connections to their stupid web-server and got 137 KB/sec (vs 8 KB/sec with one connection) and while downloading from a different connection while the 150 thread download was going I got a lovely 700 bytes/sec (much slower than the 8 before) so yeah.... It went much faster with 150 connections though:

Connection 148 finished
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,..
Connection 143 finished
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,. .
Connection 147 finished
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,..
Connection 112 finished
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,..
Connection 149 finished
,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,.

Downloaded 33.4 megabytes in 4:11 seconds. (136.19 KB/s)
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rtcy
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how do you open that many connections in a browser? I only use Seamonkey if that matters


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axel, a command line downloader. For the 90 MB file I used 250 connections which totally killed their server =P Got almost exactly 150 kilobytes/sec on that. Just did axel -n 250 »url/

Most downloaders have a limit of only 10 or so connections which wouldn't help in this situation but axel doesn't really have a limit so it could be used for DDoS's on web-servers but that is really easy to do by launching a bunch of wget's limited to 200 bytes/sec as well.
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rtcy
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thanks will look into downloaders
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