> Because they did ship like that, years ago - and some routers pretty recently would default "route all" unless they were in NAT mode.
And guess what: people used to connect their PCs directly to their DSL/cable modems and run PPPoE (or DHCP) on their Windows PCs directly, and their Windows PCs used to get assigned public IP addresses.
Times change. It's no longer 2003.
We've learned things in both the IPv4 and IPv6 space over the decades.
And guess what: people used to connect their PCs directly to their DSL/cable modems and run PPPoE (or DHCP) on their Windows PCs directly, and their Windows PCs used to get assigned public IP addresses.
Times change. It's no longer 2003.
We've learned things in both the IPv4 and IPv6 space over the decades.