PfSense Vodafone Gigafast router replacement

[bendomigan]

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!!!

[Dabbs]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Eds89]

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

[ginorh]

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 

[Eds89]

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

[ginorh]

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