On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:47 PM Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel@gmail.com> wrote:
random-source-port UDP traffic does not impress the AT&T network flow control systems, and your DNS traffic becomes unbearably slow (or is
I received a comment that maybe the issue is not AT&T's "core" network, but rather to do with the NAT device in my house. Oh, I wish this were the case! Unfortunately, there is no NAT CPE from AT&T involved: I've taken AT&T's RG CPE out completely. That device, which otherwise would indeed be my gateway, is unused on my home network, completely unpowered and unplugged. Instead I've got a linux box hooked directly up to the ONT. This works fine; occasionally I *do* have do reconnect their RG and let it re-auth to the PON, but once the connection is live, I fully unplug their RG again, and plug my laptop (spoofing its MAC) back in directly to the ONT. The laptop is running ubuntu 19.10, so there should be no artificial limits. It's running NAT directly from the v4 IP I get from DHCP. You may have noticed v4 is a theme here. I have nothing against using v6 -- , I must admit the truth is I have no idea how to make ubuntu acquire a v6 -- address? block ? I don't even know the right term -- from uverse. I know v6 works cuz AT&T's device supports it, and openwrt does it out of the box-- but heck if I know how it works. At the risk of asking this list for tech support -- does anyone want to ping me off list and point me in the right direction?? Maybe somebody from Google -- you can make up for breaking my v4 internet!! Thanks, Dan