Can Technicolor TG589vn LAN port be configured as WAN port for fibre?

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PeterPiper

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#167385 12-Mar-2015 08:54

Good people,

Have just upgraded to Spark fibre and made the unpleasant discovery that the Huawei HG630b router provided seemingly does not support NAT loopback making my home server inaccessible to portable devices via my LAN/WiFi. (Fixed IP and a modified host file is fine for my desktop machines but out of the question for anything else.)

I still have the Technicolor TG589vn modem-router which, apart from its cumbersome user interface, has a number of useful features plus a comprehensive CLI. It seems to me that it might be possible to configure one of the LAN ports as the WAN port and use this instead of the HG630b.

Anybody been down this path? Cheers

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#1256818 12-Mar-2015 09:01

pretty sure its only a ADSL/VDSL modem

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#1256863 12-Mar-2015 10:07

Haven't been down the path personally, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if it were possible.

Disclaimer: Spark of course don't support it :)

The 589 already supports sending tagged Ethernet frames down the xDSL interface, so that bodes well in terms of it's support for vlan tagging. From that I'd be almost certain it would be possible.
Have a poke around in the CLI. I'm sure there will be a fair amount of config required to do it (i.e. not one line, probably 20 or so lines of config). Personally I only have the 582, so I do have one to fiddle with.

Let us know how you go!

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#1257228 12-Mar-2015 14:34

haha have a read of this

http://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/download.php?id=514441%E2%80%8E

its the CLI commads for the tg589

PeterPiper

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#1259552 15-Mar-2015 07:53

Thanks for your interest guys - looks like a job for a rainy day.
Cheers!

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#1259560 15-Mar-2015 08:14

Surprised that no-one more expert than me (and I'm no expert!) on the Technicolor CLI has piped up and said what to do.
I do agree that it's a job for a rainy day. I'm confident it can be done - it's just a matter of how much time it will take with a lack of specific instruction.
If I were you I'd explore and map out the current configuration - i.e. draw a quick picture of which object is attached to which one - i.e. the interfaces (physical eth vs xdsl vs bridge vs ppp etc).
I think you'll need to take the physical eth port out of the bridge. Then you'll need to understand if you can create a new eth logical interface on that physical port (with the vlan10 tagging), and then attach the ppp interface to that eth interface.

I'd hope that is all you need to do, but like I say, I'm no expert.

Again, disclaimer: not support by Spark. What I mean by that is if you give us a call, we won't be able to help you with it.
Good thing is if you screw the config, you can always factory reset.

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#1259687 15-Mar-2015 15:51

I would put fair money on it not working.

I would also say it's worth using the free Huawei modem supplied with your UFB service when you get it rather than wasting your time with the technicolour. That particular model is....... poor to say the least.

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#1259770 15-Mar-2015 17:51

BarTender: That particular model is....... poor to say the least.

how so? care to explain?

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#1259794 15-Mar-2015 18:07

Jase2985:
BarTender: That particular model is....... poor to say the least.

how so? care to explain?

Overheating in warm areas causing reboots/wifi dropouts and issues with iOS devices just not working.

If I take this link.

The modems I rate are the two Huawei's, the TG582n and the 2Wire.

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#1259817 15-Mar-2015 19:07

Also if you are reconfiguring a port, it usually means its using the same physical etheernet intereface into the CPU, and just using the switch in it to tag and untag the vlans as they pass.

This will halve the thruput. Routers with a seperate wan port will usually have 2 ethernet interfaces into the CPU, so that its not conjesting up.

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