Just received upgrade from Fusion to Sonic native and I'm little confused about interfacing with the ONT. My understanding is that this is the fiber equivalent of a cable modem. However in the past the ISP has always provided a combo modem/router, and you could administer the router part yourself. From there you can either use that box for your router, or put it into bridge mode and use your own router. But in either case there is NAT and a firewall between your devices and the internet. When I hook my NIC directly to the 10GB/s port, it seems to DHCP me an address, but not on one of the standard internal subnets like 192.168.1.* or 10.0.0.*. So it seems as though I'm being connected directly to the WAN, no firewall. That seems like a recipe for disaster, so I must be missing something. The default gateway that shows up is on a different subnet, but not sure if that really means anything. I guess what I fear here is that to utilize the 10GB/s port I would have to get a 10GB/s router ($$$) for NAT/firewall, in addition to a 10GB/s NIC. Can anyone enlighten me? Has anyone rented a router from Sonic and does the router do 10GB/s? Thanks!
-Steve
-Steve