[RndTbl] Bridging the "Giga" Bell Modem for Fibre
Gerald Brandt
gbr at majentis.com
Wed Feb 7 10:52:51 CST 2024
I just forward everything via the DMZ setting to my firewall. I'm double
nat'd on the way out, but that's not really an issue anymore.
public IP --> via DMZ --> my firewall (with static IP) --> my internal
network
x.x.x.x --> 192.168.2.2 --> 172.x.x.x
Nothing's failed for me yet.
Gerald
On 2024-02-07 10:39, Alberto Abrao wrote:
> Hello everyome,
>
> following up on our last meeting's conversation about the Bell "Giga
> Hub" modem, I would like to ask if someone knows a way to properly set
> it to "bridge mode".
>
>
> The modem web interface provides a "Advanced DMZ" mode. There, one is
> able to provide a MAC Address of an interface who'd be receive
> external IP as the leased address after a DHCP request.
>
> The problem with that is, if you reboot the machine, although
> subsequent DHCP requests will successfully provide the external IP,
> Internet connectivity gets extremely choppy. The only way to fix it is
> to reboot the modem.
>
> There are many guides on how to do this for Bell, but that refers to
> Bell itself, not BellMTS. Others also point to settings fotr Bell
> Alliant (Maritimes). I could not find anything specific for Bell MTS.
> These settings are often a PPPoE incantation of sorts,
> username/password and potentially a specific VLAN. Folks in Ontario
> had luck with 35, Maritimes use 15 or something along those lines,
> others said you can just use your Bell ID and password. The patterns
> provided do not make any sense for MTS, as far as I could tell.
>
> Calling support would be useless - I tried - seeing that they're all
> based in Ontario now.
>
> Would anyone here know, or know someone who would, the incantation to
> make this work?
>
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