fizzyade
Casual Member
Hi,
I've been on CF 3G for 6 or so months and I've had no major problems over that time, apart from if you need to ask support something, they are abysmal, I have not had a single email replied to, I digress though.
Prior to joining CF I was on the VM business service (VOOM 500) and I had been using OPNSENSE with a configuration that managed VPN endpoints split-dns and a whole load of other stuff, way beyond anything that the supplied Zyxel could do.
Since installation I have tried several times to get my OPNsense working with CF but I've failed horribly every time, I have a mixture of mikrotik switches handling 10G fibre around the house and UniFi running my wireless network with AP's in each room since our London house seems to have walls made of lead, I had to put an AP in the garden because we couldn't get service through the house walls when outside.
Initially I put the Zyxel in it's modem (bridge) mode and it kind of worked but something was horribly wrong, the WAN was timing out and I was seeing huge packet loss, and I had to press the reset button to get it out of modem mode since I was unable to access the GUI, and after doing that the service went down for 24 hours, live support chat told me that I shouldn't have factory reset and that my configuration had been lost and that they would need to send an engineer out to rectify it.
Nearly 24 hours after this, it sprang back into life a router and the connection was back up, but given the packet loss (which could have been unlucky timing) and the subsequent outage I have stayed clear of trying modem mode again because I rely on my connection.
I have read in various places that I should be able to connect OPNsense up to the Adtran 621X and dispense with the Zyxel and go back to my original configuration where I OPN sense was my gateway with a 10G SFP+ connection between the NUC running OPNsense and the Adtran simply by selecting DHCP on the WAN interface.
Again, I've tried this many times over and I never get an IP address and therefore I have no internet, I've read about setting the MAC address on the WAN to the same one that the Zyxel uses, but again, this has never worked for me.
I see on here people having success but I just have never got this to work, I don't know why it doesn't work for me, I've even seen people connect a computer directly to the Adtran to prove it works, but again, this has never worked for me either.
I have a number of SFP+ 10Gbase-T modules and I can see the link is correctly negoitated in all cases, I just don't get to a point where packets start routing.
So what am I missing here? Are there people here who have a SDX 621X connected and working with OPNsense, and if so, how is the WAN configured?
I'm badly missing the stuff that I have set up with OPNsense, it was a well oiled machine, but the wheels fell off and while I've lived with that, I'd really like to get back to a solution that works.
Thanks
I've been on CF 3G for 6 or so months and I've had no major problems over that time, apart from if you need to ask support something, they are abysmal, I have not had a single email replied to, I digress though.
Prior to joining CF I was on the VM business service (VOOM 500) and I had been using OPNSENSE with a configuration that managed VPN endpoints split-dns and a whole load of other stuff, way beyond anything that the supplied Zyxel could do.
Since installation I have tried several times to get my OPNsense working with CF but I've failed horribly every time, I have a mixture of mikrotik switches handling 10G fibre around the house and UniFi running my wireless network with AP's in each room since our London house seems to have walls made of lead, I had to put an AP in the garden because we couldn't get service through the house walls when outside.
Initially I put the Zyxel in it's modem (bridge) mode and it kind of worked but something was horribly wrong, the WAN was timing out and I was seeing huge packet loss, and I had to press the reset button to get it out of modem mode since I was unable to access the GUI, and after doing that the service went down for 24 hours, live support chat told me that I shouldn't have factory reset and that my configuration had been lost and that they would need to send an engineer out to rectify it.
Nearly 24 hours after this, it sprang back into life a router and the connection was back up, but given the packet loss (which could have been unlucky timing) and the subsequent outage I have stayed clear of trying modem mode again because I rely on my connection.
I have read in various places that I should be able to connect OPNsense up to the Adtran 621X and dispense with the Zyxel and go back to my original configuration where I OPN sense was my gateway with a 10G SFP+ connection between the NUC running OPNsense and the Adtran simply by selecting DHCP on the WAN interface.
Again, I've tried this many times over and I never get an IP address and therefore I have no internet, I've read about setting the MAC address on the WAN to the same one that the Zyxel uses, but again, this has never worked for me.
I see on here people having success but I just have never got this to work, I don't know why it doesn't work for me, I've even seen people connect a computer directly to the Adtran to prove it works, but again, this has never worked for me either.
I have a number of SFP+ 10Gbase-T modules and I can see the link is correctly negoitated in all cases, I just don't get to a point where packets start routing.
So what am I missing here? Are there people here who have a SDX 621X connected and working with OPNsense, and if so, how is the WAN configured?
I'm badly missing the stuff that I have set up with OPNsense, it was a well oiled machine, but the wheels fell off and while I've lived with that, I'd really like to get back to a solution that works.
Thanks























