Hi, Was this one of the questions asked in Jordi’s survey? I’m not sure I’ve seen the results published as yet, but he got a fantastic level of response (over 200 iirc)… Jordi? :)
Tim > On 20 Sep 2016, at 13:44, Benedikt Stockebrand <b...@stepladder-it.com> wrote: > > Hi Ragnar and list, > > as far as I can tell, little has changed at least in Germany since our > last discussion on this (except that I've since sobered up again:-) > > I guess you won't be surprised that I still share the same opinion as > Ted:-) > > So far all I've consciously seen on consumer CPEs is "per default, allow > all outbound, block all inbound". I'm not sure if there are any ultra > cheap CPEs out that don't even let users configure inbound rules, but > I've never had the need to deal with anything like that. > > However, one rather interesting thing has changed here: Since August > this year, ISPs can by law no longer force their customers in Germany to > use the CPE they provide. The implications here are yet to appear, but > one possible effect might be that the ISPs move away from the > all-features-you-never-wanted-plus-some-extra CPEs they so far forced on > their customers to minimalistic devices they can just manage via TR-069 > or similar (reaching a setup similar ot the old NT1/NT2 split with ISDN > in Europe), eventually leaving the filtering to the end user again. > > With business customers the range obviously goes from "consumer grade is > good enough so why use anything else" for small businesses to dark fiber > for customers running their own AS. > > > Cheers, > > Benedikt > > -- > Benedikt Stockebrand, Stepladder IT Training+Consulting > Dipl.-Inform. http://www.stepladder-it.com/ > > Business Grade IPv6 --- Consulting, Training, Projects > > BIVBlog---Benedikt's IT Video Blog: http://www.stepladder-it.com/bivblog/ >