XPost: alt.comp.networking.routers, uk.telecom.broadband   
   From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 2/21/19 1:19 PM, Abandoned Trolley wrote:   
   > I am open to any suggestions about any router which will actually do the   
   > job ..   
      
   You may find that your ISP won't support other routers, especially when   
   you're using blocks of globally routed IPs.   
      
   I've run into multiple providers here in the US that /require/ you to   
   use their specific router for blocks of globally routed IPs (which are   
   only available on business class subscriptions).   
      
   People have talked about replacing the routers with something else and   
   maybe getting it to work.  But this is an unsupported configuration and   
   they accepted the risk of doing so.   
      
   I've heard / read accounts of cable internet providers in the US doing   
   this and requiring their router, which did standard things, but they   
   didn't tell people.  Supposedly their router used RIP on the CMTS side   
   to advertise the local globally routed block to the upstream CMTS   
   routers (which didn't advertise anything).  Thus the upstream routers   
   could find the downstream router that had the block of globally routed   
   IPs, despite the fact that said router was itself using DHCP from the   
   provider.   
      
   In some ways this seems like a nasty hack.  But in other ways it seems   
   like an elegant solution.   
      
   You may end up being tied to the "super" router provided by the ISP.  Or   
   an unsupported solution.   
      
   Good luck.   
      
      
      
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