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?
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?
On 2024-02-07 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".
I think you may be the first one of us to a) have MTS fiber, or b) want to do something "weird" (not weird for us, weird by MTS' expectations).
Once you figure it out, either way, make sure you report back to the club so we know whether or not fiber is a viable option for people wanting to do "weird".
What I did was just set up a DMZ to my firewall. All ports are automatically forwarded.
Then I set up a small $5/month VPS with a static IP, created a VPN between the VPS and my Bell Fibe link, and moved all my servers off SoYouStart to in-house through the VPS/VPN.
As I mentioned earlier, my regular (non VPS/VPN) traffic is double natted, but no issues there
On February 14, 2024 9:32:41 p.m. CST, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
On 2024-02-07 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".
I think you may be the first one of us to a) have MTS fiber, or b) want to do something "weird" (not weird for us, weird by MTS' expectations).
Once you figure it out, either way, make sure you report back to the club so we know whether or not fiber is a viable option for people wanting to do "weird". _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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