I have a plain home broadband connection that uses pppoe.
When I ping or traceroute the IP address my broadand router shows that my ISP has assigning me today from a machine on the public internet, am I testing the wire all the way to my router or is the reply from equipment in the CO?
I think the answer is that it's an end-to-end test, but it's nagging me.
Al Dykes wrote in part:
A test from outside, like
-- Robert
AD,
You are pinging the dsl router - unless you are (1) running a PPPoE client on a connected PC or the dsl router is bridged and you have another router attached (running PPPoE) .
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