[143280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH CPE landscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Ratliff)
Fri Aug 5 05:23:33 2011
From: Kenneth Ratliff <lists@cluebat.net>
In-Reply-To: <1312534781.2016.6.camel@teh-desktop>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 05:22:00 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Tom Hill wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> So... It's a router?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> What?
In the context of taking about CPE gear, it does seem wise to make the =
distinction. I suppose we can thank Linksys for that.
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