Sorry for the dumb question and hopefully this is relevant enough to the sub. I have my own firewall and right now it connects to my ISPs provided home router over rj45, their router gets a fiber hookup to their network and it’s the only ISP device in my home. If I have a firewall with a fiber port, can I take the fiber to the modem and hook that straight to my firewall, or is there a reason I need their device?
Nope. I looked at it and couldn’t come up with a way to do it. Please ignore that though. I would love to eliminate their device but so far I haven’t been able. If you figure it out I would be happy to give it a try. I’m using the passthrough method on my att router. My router does have a public IP on the wan and I shut IPV6 down completely.
I have quite a bit of experience with the tech. I’ve worked for several ISPs over the years. My last gig was sysadmin for a small four town ISP.