[143279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH CPE landscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Hill)
Fri Aug 5 05:00:40 2011
From: Tom Hill <tom@ninjabadger.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:59:38 +0100
In-Reply-To: <89D7E0CE-BDE0-441A-AF71-F9DD500AE95C@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 01:23 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> A transparent router (sorry, poor choice of terminology on my part) is
> a router which doesn't NAT or become selectively opaque (firewall). In
> other words, it forwards packets and it doesn't do any other arbitrary
> things to them at the whim of the ISP, but, rather passes along what
> the customer gives it to the ISP and vice versa without interference.
So... It's a router?
I'm confused as to why the definition "router" exists to describe a
device that NATs/selectively firewalls traffic, where "transparent
router" describes something that just routes traffic.
What?
