[143282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH CPE landscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Aug 5 10:11:43 2011
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:10:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <89D7E0CE-BDE0-441A-AF71-F9DD500AE95C@delong.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> 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.
>
> It differs from a bridge in that it terminates the collision and
> broadcast domains
> on either side of it.
It differs from a bridge in that *it requires a chunk of routable IP space
to put behind it*, and a route to go there. For the specific situation
I posited, a consumer connection, you can get a static IP, but you *will
not* get routable space; you have to go to a business connection for that,
at 2-4 times the cost.
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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