Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

On 2025-06-25 17:24, Nuno Silva wrote:

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?

No, that is inside the router. It contains the ONT equivalent, the router, the switch, and the access point for wifi. Also one or two RJ11 sockets.

 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?

No, it is some sort of VPN or VLAN. Also involves IGMP.

 

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.

A proper router allowed to connect several computers. I think it came with WiFi too, I'm not sure.
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Cheers, Carlos.