I'm having difficulties setting up Flint2 as my main router in my home FTTH Connection. Plan is to have provider's router (ZTE H288A) handling telephony (vlan: vdsl_837) and Flint2 handling internet connection (vlan: vdsl_835) and network traffic, VPN, AdGuard, etc.
I connected Flint2's wan port to a lan port on the ZTE. Flint2 takes an IP from ZTE's DHCP and the internal network takes IP's from Flint2's 192.168.8.1 network. WiFi is turned off on the ZTE and this kind of traffic goes through Flint2 also. So far, so good.
The problem is, when I try to configure PPPoE on the Flint2. The credentials are correct, vlan ID also (835) but it is not connecting. The ZTE has two tabs in its "Internet-Wan" settings, "DSL" and "Ethernet" and on both are vlan settings "vdsl_835" to see. I've read that I should create a "Bridge" vlan and probably use the same ID (835) and then disable the one on ZTE, but on which tab? If I disable the vlan on the "DSL" tab, ZTE stays connected, if I disable it on the "Ethernet" tab, I loose connection to the ZTE and I have to reset it in order to get back in. Furthermore, it seems to be impossible to deactivate DHCP on the ZTE. I tried to give it a reserved IP from Flint's DHCP range, but it didn't work also. By deactivating ZTE's DHCP, I've lost the connection to it.
That's the thing, I want ZTE to handle nothing more than the telephony part. If I had the choice, I would decommission it completely. Is there a way to do that through Flint2?
No, I don't think this will be possible, to be honest.
Maybe with some weird routing, PPPoE, VLAN stuff - but this wouldn't be supported by the stock firmware then.
like do they specify pppoe? Or iPoE (just dhcp from vlan).
If it is pppoe, the telephony already is authenticated then, you should be able to connect to it as a dhcp client interface, you might require to use luci there.
Likely you need some proxy to sent traffic over lan, or add the eth1 vlan to br-lan but that seems not so safe, you could create a seperate bridge with only one lan port for voip and the eth1 vlan device from wan, or something like siproxd comes in mind.
There are rare use cases where you need two different type protocols on the same vlan, in that case you need to use alias notation in luci.
like: @eth1.6 and the other: eth1.6
But i dont think that is your issue, but just want to make a note of it because that is very undocumented even in OpenWrt
Ciao
I'm not sure I understand the question here. Flint 2 needs an ethernet cable, generally connected to the WLAN port, from a device that already provides internet, like a modem or a fiber channel terminator/converter. I assume you have a fiber optics cable arriving directly to your home/apartment FTTH, and the cable is connected to a media converter that converts the fiber signal to a LAN port though which you supply Flint 2.
In my case, I have an FTTH from Telecom Italia which provides me with a ZTE media converter, and the only output port is a LAN port. Theoretically I should use their ugly ugly ugly and horrible modem to get Wifi, internet, and telephony, but I refuse to use such device. So I have a FritzBox where I can attach my legacy telephone, and get Wi-Fi and internet. But the FritzBox coverage is not as good as Flint 2, so I switched off the FritzBox Wi-Fi and got a LAN cable and connected it to Flint 2 WAN port!
I wish Flint had telephony support, I would have thrown away everything and kept only Flint.
Things here in Greece are pretty much the same, with a touch of "complication" dare I say.
Most telephony connections are VoIP, so you need a router that supports that (FritzBox is a fine option, but not provided and a bit on the expensive side to purchase). The provider gives you an "ugly" router and keeps the sip credentials to itself, so you can't really buy a FritzBox to use for telephony (only one provider does give you these credentials, but he is also the most expensive one). So, for telephony, you are stuck with the router from your provider. And of course for fiber connections the ONT (in your case a ZTE, in mine, a NOKIA)
Now the fun part:
What I want to achieve is to have the telephony from provider's router and everything else through Flint2. For the time being, the connection looks like this:
ONT -> ZTE wan port - ZTE lan port -> Flint2 wan port
My Network get's IPs from Flint2 DHCP and I also have WiFi connection from it.
What I can't get to work is, using Flints PPPoE to make the internet connection, using ZTE just as a bridge. If I deactivate the Ethernet VLAN called "Eth_835", having Flint2 setup to do this, it simply won't work.
I've read somewhere that, I have to delete the VLAN in question, create a bridge on the providers' router and bind it with the port that Flint2 is connected to, set up Flint2 PPPoE using the connections credentials and the same VLAN ID (835) and deactivate DHCP on the providers router but first give it a dedicate IP from Flint2s pool. But I haven't been able so far to test this.
