Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

On 2025-06-25, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-25 10:42, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2025 12:27:35 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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It is my ISP who has a problem. They haven't said which, but my educated
guess is that many of the routers they installed are faulty. For
example, mine does not protect the LAN with a firewall on IPv6, all
machines are directly exposed.

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Why are you using an ISP-supplied router? I have always bought my own.

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Because the required (by the ISP) configuration to support
TV-over-fibre, telephone-over-fibre and internet is not published.

So what you have is an ONT for GPON?

I'd guess TV wouldn't be a configuration, but just EDFA? I don't really
know details of how that is implemented, but I'd think adding any sort
of configuration to it would complicate it beyond just amplifying the
signal?

Even when I was on ADSL, I found a USB device (Conexant AccessRunner) for
which you could get firmware that would run it as just a modem, not a
router, so I could connect it as an extra network interface on a Linux box
and have that handle the routing. I just had to set it up as a PPP-over-
ATM connection.

Heh, I ended up going the other direction when I had ADSL, I tried to
obtain a third-party modem-router so that I'd not have to deal with an
USB modem device (what the ISP offered) connected to a computer as a
peripheral, but rather just plug 8P8C to it and have it handle the WAN
connection itself.


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Nuno Silva