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PfSense Vodafone Gigafast router replacement

bendomigan
2: Seeker
2: Seeker

Has anyone replaced their gigafast router with PfSense?

 

My setup is as follows and my experince with PfSense is limited 

 

re0 - Wan

re1 - Lan

 

I have connected the ethernet from the FTTP wall mounted box to re0 on the PfSense machine.

 

On the WAN port I have setup as a PPPOE and entered by login details and alos setup a VLAN tag 911 (I was told this is the correct tag by Vodafone customer service).

 

I have attempted to get this setup to work for the last few hours but feel I am missing something, any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

 

 

 

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Dabbs
Moderator (Retired)
Moderator (Retired)

Hey @bendomigan thanks for getting in touch 😊 Our Gigafast team will be able to help you with this. You can call them from any Vodafone mobile on 191 or alternatively calling them on 0333 304 0191. 

 
 

   

Anonymous
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Genuinely think that the Pfsense community is probably your best option for an answer on this.  A quick search though does suggest that you are not the first to face an issue trying to get Pfsense to express a VLAN ID on the Intenet port.

 

@Dabbs, I really feel that I ought to be making a bet with you that tech support can't solve this one!

Eds89
2: Seeker
2: Seeker

Did you ever get this working?

 

Support have told me I simply need vlan 911 and my pppoe details, but it just don't work!

 

Cheers

Eds

Ripshod
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

911 is correct for cityfibre. If you're on openreach VLAN should be disabled. 

Yes I'm using 911, but my pppoe session just does not establish

ginorh
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I've just got my setup working today and hope I'm not too late

Replaced my THG3000 with my pfsense server.

 Not sure if this is location or provider based, I was initially given VLAN id 191 with a dslxxxxxxx@vodafone.co.uk and followed by 101 but on searching through some posts I found 911 and it worked

So in the end my working setup is:

PPPOE setup on VLAN 911 on the WAN interface

username in the format: dslxxxxxxx@broadband.vodafone.co.uk and password, provided by vodafone support

I also added an MTU of 1492 which is what I think actually did the trick.

Happy to post some screenshots if that will help 

My particular issue was my own doing;

I run pfSense as an ESXi VM, and my issue was down to my VLAN trunk config within VMware.

 

Once I corrected my VLAN issue, my sessions came up but I had terrible stability. For me, this seems related to traffic shaping, which I've removed and now I'm all up and running perfectly!

 

Cheers

Eds

Great to hear. If I go down the vm route for pfsense, I'll make sure to keep that in mind.