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Re:Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs by muppetman on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:23PM (#41649081)
How is the ONT, a Layer2/Ethernet device, involved in L3 sessions? Was it also the default gateway/router all rolled up into one?
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Re:Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs by neelc on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @01:22PM (#41649682)
There is a mis-feature on the ONT called "Broadcom Packet Flow Cache". It apparently speeds up TCP sessions but at the expense of allowing a large amount of then.

Lumen fortunately moved off these ONTs. However, the new Smart NIDs have their fair share of issues from what I heard. I moved out of Lumen territory so have no experience with them.

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