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Feature Request - Home Internet Gateway DHCP Settings
T-Mo - Please enable us to set the DHCP parameters on the home internet gateway ("trashcan"). I want to use static addresses and DNS-based content filtering for my local network. Gracias.
Y -- This also reminds me of my first "PC", a Radio Shack Model 3. The model 1 was very modular, plug and play, even if difficult to get it to work reliably. Some other "fruity company" out there had a similar design philosophy of allowing and encouraging both users and developers to create their OWN devices, their OWN software, and even their own operating systems.
Some guy from Radio Shack however named "Shirley", must have been a real control freak. Bust the paper seal over the screw to even open the case, use a different operating system, and it would void the warranty. I think they would also refuse to even try to repair it at that time, if just one non-company component was EVER used. (Yeah, His name REALLY was Shirley!!).
Users fought, complained, and worked around the tyrants as best they could, but to no avail. Meanwhile, the "open standard" became by far, much more preferred over the closed source and hardware, and Apple almost won all the marbles… But then, there were a few rogue engineer/managers in Boca Raton that broke with New York's head office and produced the revolutionary IBM PC movement, with an open design philosophy in hardware and software. Had not a violent thunderstorm in Texas killed off those Rogue IBM managers, you likely wouldn't have aver heard of anyone named "jobs" or "Apple". IBM and OS/2 would have also replaced, NT/Windows and Microsoft as the predominant Operating System company. Nevertheless, both IBM, Apple and many other "open-architecture" companies put a stake in the closed minded Radio Shack head start that they once had. I bought one of those companies that created an IBM compatible, and it was allowed to exist and flourish, and not stomped on.
LEGERE -- Where did you go?? Please at least visit, and try to shake everyone up and tell them at TM, that they can't, shouldn't try, and don't have to replace all the network hardware and software we are using today in our current networks! Want to own that market?? OK, then buy Cisco and do it the right way.
