So in anticipation of switching from FTTC to FTTH with Fibre 500 I've been setting up a DIY PC (Fujitsu Futro s920) with pfsense the last few weeks.
Once it went live yesterday I went online with vodafone chat and got them to send me my login details: username and password.
After several such online chats and hours of reading on this forum and elsewhere I'm completely stuck. I'm really hoping I'm doing something so obviously dumb that someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong!
Simply connecting an ethernet cable from the ONT to my desgnated WAN physical port gives me a green up arrow on the pfsense dashboard. This presumably just means it's registered the physical connection.
So this port on my hardware is em3 - so next I create a VLAN with 911 with em3 as the parent port.
Then in Interface Assignments with VLAN 911 on em3 ( WAN (em3.911) )selected in the Network port pop up menu I click on the WAN interface link so I can enter my user name and password - I'm selecting PPPoE, None for iPv6, entering an MTU of 1492.
I'm putting in an idle timeout of 0 as per the instructions from web chat
Host-Uniq I am also leaving blank - I assume this is the right thing to do as I haven't been advised differently.
I click save and the dashboard green arrow turns to point down and red.
Is there something obvious I'm not doing?
Is there any chance (since I know I'm one of the first to get CityFibre FTTH in my local area of Leeds) that there's a different VLAN id being used? I know that Openreach uses 101 but I assume there's no point in trying that given I was with the Cityfibre guys most of yesterday afternoon, there's no question the fibre has anything to do with BT/Openreach
Any ideas or things to try?
Thanks
J
