I have a Bell Canada gig fibre connection. My first attempt was to bridge their all-in-one box (disaster, unreliable as all hell), second was to set a bunch of rules for inbound traffic. Apart from inbound access being *very* iffy, their device was s_l_o_w.
So I pulled the fibre GBIC, used a small switch to grab the correct VLAN and pointed that at a small Cisco box. Way more flexible, faster and more reliable than Bell’s box. DSLreports had all the info needed to get the correct VLANs YMMV > On Oct 13, 2020, at 9:56 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Very interesting. Looks like the intention is to bypass the ONT entirely and > use a GPON ONT SFP in ones own choice of small home router. If the ISP wants > to do some weird TR069 provisioning or other stuff it could be seen as > interfering with the proper management of their network if you remove the CPE > entirely. > > In an ideal world, personally I would be totally fine with keeping a telco > provided small ONT configured as a dumb L2 bridge, with one optical interface > single strand (SC/APC) going to the ISP, and 1000BaseT to my own router. > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 6:51 PM Eric Dugas <edu...@unknowndevice.ca> wrote: > I don't have any particular insights for Telus, but there is a huge thread > about bypassing Bell ONTs on DSLReports: > https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32230041-Internet-Bypassing-the-HH3K-up-to-2-5Gbps-using-a-BCM57810S-NIC > Cheers, > Eric > On Oct 13 2020, at 9:38 pm, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the growth of gigabit class single fiber GPON last mile services, I > imagine a number of people reading the list must have subscribed to such by > now. > > Something that I have observed, and shared observations with a number of > colleagues, is that very often a person who works for ($someAS) lives in a > location where you are effectively singlehomed to ($someotherAS). Maybe you > bought your house before you got a job with your current employer, or maybe > the network you work for doesn't do residential last mile service at all. > Perhaps you work remotely for a regional sized entity that's a long distance > away from where you live. > > Therefore necessitating a choice of service from whatever facilities based > consumer-facing ISP happens to service your home. > > For example, in Seattle, a number of people discovered that they could keep > the Centurylink GPON ONT, and remove the centurylink-provided router/modem > combo device. Provided that they were able to configure their own router > (small vyatta, pfsense box, mikrotik, whatever) to speak a certain VLAN tag > on its WAN interface and be a normal PPPoE / DHCP client. > > I'm sure there are a lot of people who prefer to run their own home router > and wifi devices, and not rely upon a ($big_residential_isp) provided > all-in-one router/nat/wifi box with opaque configuration parameters, or no > ability to change configuration at all. > > Any insights as to what the configuration of the Telus AS852 GPON network > looks would be helpful. Or other observations in general on > technically-oriented persons who are doing similar with other ILECs.
