Sorry for the dumb question and hopefully this is relevant enough to the sub. I have my own firewall and right now it connects to my ISPs provided home router over rj45, their router gets a fiber hookup to their network and it’s the only ISP device in my home. If I have a firewall with a fiber port, can I take the fiber to the modem and hook that straight to my firewall, or is there a reason I need their device?
I was kind of expecting something like that. If I wanted to do the test, would I just set the wan side of my firewall to dynamic and see if it picks up an address?
Yeah the ISP will have to give you an address. The headache might be finding out DHCP server’s hostname. You may be able to find that out from the IP information on the ISP Issued router you have.