[143265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH CPE landscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Aug 4 17:09:00 2011
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E01EC15F-A7B7-4D54-ADF7-D73C07D56282@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> >> - Generic consumer grade NAT/Firewall
> >
> > Hobby horse: please make sure it support bridge mode? Those of us who
> > want to put our own routers on the wire will hate you otherwise.
>
> Why? As long as it can be a transparent router, why would it need to
> be a bridge?
Ask a Verizon FiOS customer who wants to run IPv4 VPNs.
He didn't say IPv6 only, right?
I have a couple of customers who can't get bridge mode on residence FiOS
service, and therefore can't run their own routers to terminate IPsec.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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