Just responding to this for completeness as I have some more information
on my side
On 3/24/23 07:21, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2023-03-23, Kaya Saman <kayasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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)
The main release cycle is -current, -beta, <no suffix>, -current - this
hasn't changed. (The "no suffix" includes a few snapshots prior to an
actual finished release, and that's the stage we are at right now).
Ah ok I see, I also understand what has happened in the meantime... no
problem. I'll see if I really need to upgrade to current again as right
now Beta seems to be doing everything I need
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.
IIRC you're UK based aren't you? Which ISP?
If the ISP is using Openreach's FTTP you will need to use their ONT
which will act as a bridge, then you use your own or an ISP-provided
router connected over ethernet. Typically it's PPPoE though the backhaul
supports plain ethernet and some ISPs (notably Sky) use it, normally
with DHCP. The ONT is not user-configurable and you have to use it.
Non-Openreach-based vary. If you're lucky you might get pppoe out of the
ONT and be able to connect your own router (likely with at least some of
the ISPs selling CityFibre-based lines). Some others are often much more
locked down - if you're lucky you might get to put their kit in bridge
mode, if not you might be behind a NAT router and can't do anything
about it. (Some don't even let you make changes to even things as simple
as wifi SSID yourself and you need to get them to do it for you).
I haven't seen any that will let you connect to the incoming fibre
directly.
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.....
You can get various cards that will take SFP/SFP+. You can get GPON SFPs.
But you can't enrol a custom router in the provider's provisioning system
that sets up crypto keys etc (GPON is a shared medium; other subscribers
will get the same light carrying your connection and encryption is used
so they can't see your packets).
As far as your connection is concerned the demarc is pretty much always
the ethernet port on either the provider's ONT or their supplied router.
Just got off a lengthy phone call with Tier2 tech support at G-Net,
which was a lot of fun!! It's so rare to talk in technical terms with
someone and have them understand you.
Apparently their take is that everything up to and including 1Gb/s must
be handled by their own ONT... which is in fact a transparent RFC 1483
network bridge. The only difference comes for 10Gb/s customers which get
a dedicated Cisco WAN switch with SFP+ module. I'm not sure if they
service speeds up to 100Gb/s but I can only imagine high throughput data
centers (especially those with high bit rate streaming services) will
need them.
In terms of connection to their network: it is not handled by PPPoE or
even DHCP. DHCP is used for dynamically allocated customers such as
those on residential packages only, so no static IP reservation system
in place. I am told no credentials either....
Currently there is a little confusion in how to setup the block of IP
addresses as I have had to upgrade to a block of 16. Right now my
connection gets a single IPv4 address through ipcp with the rest of the
IP addresses being handled in PF through NAT/PAT mappings. I have
forgotten how it is handled but I am willing to bet that my current ISP
is forwarding those addresses in static routes??
I am wondering if it will be similar except for the gateway IP address
which will need to be provisioned on the WAN facing ethernet interface
along with default 0 dot quaded route, or if I'm going to have to create
sub interfaces for the rest of the provisioned IP addresses?? I am told
that out of the 16 addresses I loose 3 - network, broadcast, gateway ,
so I should have 13 addresses to play around with.
I guess I'll have to figure things out on Monday once the installation
is complete.....
You could say right now I'm excited but nervous at the same time :-S
Kaya
