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OP has a combined router and modem, presumably without the ability to put it in bridge mode to run their own router.

I am familiar with the looks of this device as it’s in use at two locations I‘m providing in-family support for.

At least in those two cases (different ISPs), it’s possible to turn the device into bridging mode

From the screenshot at the top it looks like they're using unitymedia. The funny thing is, at least in the past, that thing resets entirely if you disconnect it from power for some time, booting up with some old firmware revision afterwards. If you power it on then and quickly access the web interface, you'll see the option for bridge mode. Then it magically updates, and the option is gone. (this was a few years ago)

As far as I know vodafone uses the same modem/router for all DOCSIS connections, but disables some funcionality (such as bridge mode) for 'ex-unitymedia' connections.

It seems like the integration of both networks is quite a task and the bridge-mode feature is not a priority. How the bridge-mode is affected by the network backbone is unclear to me. IPv6 delegation also does not work for me.

And the route itself has 192.168.88 in it which smells mighty like MikroTik to me.

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