<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Bell on Ops &amp; Obfuscation</title><link>https://blog.cball5.club/tags/bell/</link><description>Recent content in Bell on Ops &amp; Obfuscation</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><managingEditor>nothanks@donttalkto.me (Corey)</managingEditor><webMaster>nothanks@donttalkto.me (Corey)</webMaster><copyright>&lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;CC BY-NC 4.0&lt;/a&gt;</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 01:26:53 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.cball5.club/tags/bell/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Bell Home Hub 4000: DMZ vs PPPoE Passthrough (What Actually Works)</title><link>https://blog.cball5.club/posts/2026/01/bell-home-hub-4000-dmz-vs-pppoe-passthrough-what-actually-works/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>nothanks@donttalkto.me (Corey)</author><guid>https://blog.cball5.club/posts/2026/01/bell-home-hub-4000-dmz-vs-pppoe-passthrough-what-actually-works/</guid><description>&lt;img src="https://blog.cball5.club/images/pppoe-vs-dmz/pppoe-vs-dmz.png" alt="Streetfighter &amp;#39;vs&amp;#39; screen between PPPoE vs DMZ." class="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" /&gt;


&lt;h2 id="tldr"&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re looking for easy, do Advanced DMZ. If you&amp;rsquo;re looking for stable, do PPPoE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re feeling adventurous, you may attempt a complete bypass at your own discretion.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="intro"&gt;Intro&lt;/h2&gt;

 &lt;img src="https://blog.cball5.club/images/pppoe-vs-dmz/topo.png" alt="Minimum topo needed for this setup." class="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" /&gt;


&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been doing any networking at all outside of the basic functionality that your Bell Home Hub 4000 (HH4K) provides, you&amp;rsquo;ll quickly notice that while there are options, they&amp;rsquo;re not great ones.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>