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TacticalCoderyesterday at 9:37 PM1 replyview on HN

I didn't see in TFA --although I may have missed it-- where it said it was replacing the ISP's router/CPE. Anything routing traffic is a router.

At home I've got both a CPE given by my ISP and my own router that routes and bridges traffic between two LANs of mine (192. and 10.).

Moreover the lack of IPv6 inside our own LANs is, for many of us, a feature. It doesn't mean we don't have an IPv6 address: it just means we have the choice and did choose to have our own LANs on IPv4 only. And, no, I don't care that it makes some programmers at some megacorp' lives more difficult to "reach" inside my networks.

I'm the boss at my home and my router is IPv4 only.

And I've got that in addition to my ISP's CPE.


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0o_MrPatrick_o0today at 3:27 AM

I wouldn’t call it a cpe unless it translates the connection from the clec/co into IP.

IMO, it’s a plain old router/switch/bridge.