STARK, BARBARA H <bs7...@att.com> wrote:
>> From: Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>
>>
>> In the ADD WG, Barbara STARK, BARBARA H <bs7...@att.com> wrote:
>> > [BHS] While my ISP requires me to use the CE router they supply, I’ve
>> > never had an issue connecting that to my own router and then running
>> my
>> > home network from my router. The CE router from my particular ISP
>> > (YMMV) even automatically passes on the public IPv4 address it acquires
>> > and a /64 IPv6 prefix to my router (so IPv4 just has the single NAT and
>> > IPv6 works great). I have total ability to choose any router I want and
>> > configure that router as much as that router vendor’s GUI allows (e.g.,
>>
>> 1) Does your ISP provides router auto-detect that there is another router
>> behind
>> it, and turn itself into a modem only? or did you have configure that?
> The ISP router auto-detects the presence of a router on its LAN and
> uses a capture screen to ask the user if they want the ISP router to go
> into "IPv4 passthrough" mode. The ISP router does not become a
This is very cool.
Is it written up as a specification somewhere? What is the signal that the
device behind is a router, and not a PC?
Why isn't homenet standardizing this?
> PPPoE is only legacy (old ADSL). The IPv4 passthrough does work there
> (because the ISP router is still a router, as described above). IPv6 on
> legacy is 6rd with a /60 -- so the IPv6 stuff is different. Fiber,
> VDSL, and Gfast (and some newer ADSL) are IPoE (PTM), and not IP o
> PPPoE o ATM.
Nobody has told Bell Canada the PPPoE is legacy :-)
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Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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