[wplug] fios & IPCOP

[Rick Reynolds]

Mike wrote:
> Another common thing a lot of DSL providers are doing lately is 
> incorporating a NAT firewall into the modem.  Verizon included (Cannot 
> speak for FIOS however).  Any PC you hang off that modem is going to 
> get a private NATted address.

I can speak to this at least.  I got FiOS installed last week.  They 
aren't doing anything special with the router that they give you.  In 
fact, I don't have mine connected at all anymore.  I've got the FiOS 
running directly to my Linksys WRT54GS (running DD-WRT Linux firmware...).

I don't know much about the actual FiOS technology and what it is 
exactly that they attached to my house.  I'm treating it like an 
ethernet connection.  Their hardware does whatever it does and hands 
ethernet to me, which I can plug right into my own router.

Oh, and I get a public IP address (via DHCP) on the WAN port of my router.

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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