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... if your definition of "home routers" excludes ISP-provided ones, then I'll agree. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that either you are on an ISP that actually
by zinekeller 5y ago
... if your definition of "home routers" excludes ISP-provided ones, then I'll agree. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that either you are on an ISP that actually cared and found a good supplier or didn't check out what are the capabilities of ISP-provided routers.
- dsr_ 5y agoOf the three ISPs in my area that I have used, all of them allowed inbound traffic and either had useful controls in their routers or didn't supply a router, just an ethernet handoff. RCN, Comcast, Verizon. All of them filtered out the SMB/CIFS ports. Two of them filtered outbound port 25; one of them was willing to open it with the additional cost of a static IP.
- zinekeller 5y agoYeah, it's inconsistent to be honest. I've found that Hitron to not have any sort of firewalls (except for IPv4 NAT if you consider it as a firewall), while Huawei routers (which is not used in the US for reasons hopefully known to you) do have an IPv6 firewall that is only an off or on switch, stupidly their enterprise stuff do have advanced controls, Alcatel/Nokia-branded ones are inconsistent to say the least and the same can be said for Zyxel. I'm actually interested in checking out other routers used by ISPs, but those are the ones I've actually seen.
- throw0101a 5y agoWith IPv4 I have to worry about UPnP/PCP working and TURN/STUN/etc non-sense when it comes to peer-to-peer protocols. With IPv6 I only have to worry about about UPnP/PCP working. In my books that's an improvement. If I want to self-host something, then with IPv4 I have publish my IP and worry about the CPE supporting port forwarding. With IPv6 I have publish my IP and use UPnP/PCP to allow all connections. Is there any CPE gear that does not support UPnP/PCP?