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What purpose is there in handling PPPoE on the router, rather than the modem?

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Mar 15, 202621245 views
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I'm wondering what benefits there is to using "bridged" mode on a modem. If your router can handle PPPoE, is there any reason to bridge it over to the router, rather than having it run on the modem?

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Whichever device does PPPoE also has to do NAT, and whichever device does NAT usually does DHCP. If your router has a better, more flexible NAT and a better DHCP server, let your router do it. You don't want both devices doing NAT if you can avoid i…

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