[137160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Feb 9 17:37:58 2011
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:37:12 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D530C2F.5050003@ispalliance.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/9/2011 3:50 PM, Scott Helms wrote:
> The smaller telcos are almost universally doing NAT as well providers
> like Alltel, Centurytel, Frontier, Finepoint, as well as the smaller
> ILEC's simply don't do bridging on their CPE gear since they seldom had
> their DSLAMs set up to deal with Q-in-Q or isolation methods. That's
> not to say I don't know some that are the exception since I do know of a
> few telcos that run PPPoE clients on the client PC and a handful that
> did get port isolation working but they are not the norm in the US.
Yeah, but CPE NAT with uPNP and other protocols is a far cry from LSN.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that over 90% of my network is
bridged (even have some cpe's bridging 802.11 in, which really through
the vendors for a loop, but they did it). However, LSN doesn't have a
lot of the capabilities that CPEs have for dealing with NAT breakage.
Jack