Hi everyone,
it's been a long time since I've posted here and in the meantime I have
just upgraded from 7.0-current to 7.3-beta through sysupgrade which is
amazing! Thanks so much for all the hard work and effort put in to the
tool!!
Unfortunately I haven't been well for a long time hence the delay in
upgrade and at first found it a little difficult but the way forward
after a bit of reading around was to go to 7.1-release then 7.2 and
finally jump back to Current which I believe is called Beta now? (unless
I missed something or am confusing)
I'm about to jump onto the full fiber band wagon with my WAN connection
and was wondering what advice or recommendations I could get for the
hardware in this.
Unfortunately right now I'm a little panicked because my (new) ISP will
provide me with either a Huwei or Nokia device which seem to be very
basic in functionality and don't seem to support RFC 1483 bridging which
I'm using currently for my VDSL2 connection. I've read the manual for
the Nokia which I was suggested that they "thought" would be able to do
what I want it to do, but it doesn't seem possible.
I found the manual here:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/2084440/Nokia-7368-Intelligent-Services-Access-Manager-Ont.html
Model: Nokia G-2425G-B
Currently I am using transparent bridging between a Cisco 887VA VDSL2
router/modem and my OpenBSD installation which I let OBSD take care of
everything from Layer3 and above using the kernel PPP module and PF.
I'm wondering if anyone knows if one can get a PCIe card... possibly
Intel chipset will be best that can take an SFP or SFP+ module to
accommodate what I assume currently is an SC/APC LR connection which I
can feed directly to OpenBSD? - again I'm just basing this according to
the manual as I don't have any fiber experience at all.....
As the OpenBSD machine in question runs SuperMicro hardware I will have
a look on their website as well as they do have their own brand of cards
which might be more easily obtainable then any other type..??
The ISP has not given me any information on connection type or even
settings yet so I'm still quite in the dark with this and I'm still
trying to get a hold of someone who actually can provide that
information. Right now I'm basing what I have read in the Nokia models
manual.
Like with *DSL if such a system doesn't exist for PC hardware then it
might be possible to look at getting something like a Cisco 11xx series
with the correct SFP module and again just bridging as I'm doing now.
Right now I just want to run it by here in case someone has experience
with this type of setup and can suggest a better or alternative method
to achieve what I'm trying to do.
For me right now what's a little frustrating is that I don't know if
they are using PPP dialup style connection or simply DHCP on their end.
It also doesn't seem to be written down anywhere either like it used to
be done with ADSL/VDSL providers.
As a side note the unfortunate part is my current ISP is ceasing
operations on their business services, and there are only a handful of
ISP's left servicing my area. It seems like the trend has shifted
towards mobile and wireless technologies with LTE being really popular :-(
Many thanks,
Kaya
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