Re: Understanding IPv6-PD over PPPoE

[Marc Haber <mh+networkmanager-list zugschlus de>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 09:44:20AM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:28:16PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:36:23PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > > Marc Haber <mh+networkmanager-list zugschlus de> writes:
> > > > Unfortunately, it is pretty hard in Germany to get a dedicated VDSL
> > > > modem so that you can do the PPPoE yourself, so I can't comment about
> > > > the exchanges that go on on the wire.
> > >
> > > You can't use any VDSL modem, or bridge the one you have?
> >
> > Modern Fritzboxes cannot be bridged any more, at least the ones that
> > also do SIP, since one would lose the phone features of the box.
>
> One possibility is to use a separate router (or Linux machine)
> connected to the LAN port of the modem and use PPPoE pass-through, if
> the Fritzbox supports it and the ISP allows multiple PPPoE sessions.

I know. It doesn't (any more). They don't (any more).

In Germany, those features died with the rollout of
Fiber-to-the-Curb-Vectoring-VDSL and the migration of the backhaul from
ATM to Ethernet.


Greetings
Marc, who would REALLY like to be able to investigate the network-side
protocols of the CPE a bit more in depth, but without a budget to do so.


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