Re: FTTH CPE landscape

[Tom Hill <tom () ninjabadger net>]

On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 01:23 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> A transparent router (sorry, poor choice of terminology on my part) is
> a router which doesn't NAT or become selectively opaque (firewall). In
> other words, it forwards packets and it doesn't do any other arbitrary
> things to them at the whim of the ISP, but, rather passes along what
> the customer gives it to the ISP and vice versa without interference.

So... It's a router?

I'm confused as to why the definition "router" exists to describe a
device that NATs/selectively firewalls traffic, where "transparent
router" describes something that just routes traffic.

What?