[ale] isp questions

[Bob]

Hi Sam,

I spent some time surfing last night and stumbled across the following 
sites:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/88421/uverse-and-pfsense-can-t-we-just-get-along/8

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/17734

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/150517/bypass-at-t-fiber-bgw210-700/15

https://github.com/aus/pfatt  (site has disappeared)

https://github.com/MonkWho/pfatt

The site https://github.com/aus/pfatt supposedly had the most info but 
has recently disappeared.

Reading through the above sites made me think that it's not so easy to 
use a pfsense router/firewall.  It sounds like you know a lot more than 
I do.  Maybe the above will help you.

--Bob



On 2020-06-15 6:18 p.m., Sam Rakowski via Ale wrote:
> Yeah we have AT&T fiber, just the 50$ 100Mbit service (but they do offer a 1Gbit service for 20$ extra a month), but. If you're eligible, they'll run FTTH (well, might still be FTTN, or to whatever the fiber equivalent of a DSLAM is,) but I can confirm I definitely get my full 100 Mbit, and often even faster.
> 
> Here's the thing, though. They actually run fiber into your house, and install an actual ONT in front of their router.  You can pass-through your static IP(s) through the web interface via "static" DHCP reservations, but it still does...weird things with the traffic. I can't remember what exactly, but it's not just a L2 bridge.
> 
> Things aren't quite as easy as just plugging your pfSense box into the ONT. The box provided does some 802.1x authentication with a cert in the router before the port is enabled, but from what I've read, once it does that, the port is enabled. I've read online, but haven't had the time yet to do this, but if you have an extra port on your pfSense box, you can proxy the 802.1x packets from the box through to the ONT, then use that as your WAN connection.
> 
> If you have any luck doing that, please send me/the list a quick write-up and that might spur me into action :) It is possible though, from what I've heard.
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