Spark ufb hg630 in bridge - gargoyle not happy

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#181318 10-Oct-2015 15:56

Got my shiny new ufb connection this morning was hoping is just be able to plug in my gargoyle router and off I go (wr1043nd v2).

Alas no.

I'd tried manually putting on vlan tagging and tired both dhcp and PPPoE connections. To no avail.

Ive now tried putting the hg630 into bridge mode as per the instructions on their site. They give the PPPoE settings as user@xtrabb.co.nz and password of password. These differ from what I had on adsl (password was different).

But no matter what I do I can't get the gargoyle to connect.

How should it work?
Ont to gargoyle wan with dhcp set? And manually vlan 10 tag?

Or should I work the hg630 in bridge then be able to connect gargoyle in PPPoE mode?

Incidentally tied connecting a Windows machine directly via PPPoE and neither password seemed to work either.

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#1403573 10-Oct-2015 17:28

You'll need to connect via PPPoE on VLAN 10 - ensure that a username (user@xtrabb.co.nz) and a password are present. A common mistake is putting a "service" name in which doesn't work, leave this blank. There isn't a need to use the HG630 to achieve this.

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#1403579 10-Oct-2015 17:45

michaelmurfy: You'll need to connect via PPPoE on VLAN 10 - ensure that a username (user@xtrabb.co.nz) and a password are present. A common mistake is putting a "service" name in which doesn't work, leave this blank. There isn't a need to use the HG630 to achieve this.

So I should be able to go ont directly to gargoyle wan port. User name as posted. Was the password if password correct as per their settings?

As per here? https://www.spark.co.nz/help/internet-data/equipment/huawei/hg630b-gateway/setup-bridge-mode-huawei-hg630b/

I had a password of Spark1 written down.

I had the following for van tagging
config interface 'loopback'
option ifname 'lo'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
option netmask '255.0.0.0'

config interface 'lan'
option ifname 'eth1'
option type 'bridge'
option proto 'static'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
option dns '8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4'

config interface 'wan'
option ifname 'eth0.10'
option proto 'dhcp'
option dns '8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4'
option peerdns '0'

config switch
option name 'switch0'
option reset '1'
option enable_vlan '1'

config switch_vlan
option device 'switch0'
option vlan '1'
option ports '0 1 2 3 4'

config switch_vlan
option device 'switch0'
option vlan '10'
option ports '5t 6t'

In the /etc/config/network but had no joy.

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#1403580 10-Oct-2015 17:46

password doesnt matter as long as its not blank

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#1403582 10-Oct-2015 17:53

You definitely need to use PPPoE, but anything will work as a username and password as Spark use port based auth.

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#1403583 10-Oct-2015 18:02

davidcole:

Incidentally tied connecting a Windows machine directly via PPPoE and neither password seemed to work either.

If you want to do this, you will need to set VLAN tagging 10 in your network card's driver settings.

Also, can you confirm what is the color of the lights you see on the ONT?

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#1403664 10-Oct-2015 21:45

Jase2985: password doesnt matter as long as its not blank

That used to matter, but it doesn't anymore after recent upgrades.

PPPoE (not DHCP as that won't work!) on VLAN 10 and preferably a username of something (doesn't even need an @ symbol in there) and a password of something. "a" for both username and password is fine.

Your switch config is all wrong: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=32650
and http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/network/switch for some reference

config 'switch_vlan'

option 'vlan' '1'

option 'ports' '1 2 3 4 5t'

config 'switch_vlan'

option 'vlan' '10'

option 'ports' '0t 5t'

config 'interface' 'wan'

option 'ifname' 'eth0.10'

option 'proto' 'pppoe'

option 'username' 'spark'

option 'password' 'spark'

Then plug into port 0 which is the WAN port on your router. The main thing is having the system switch interface (5t) on both sides. Otherwise the internal vlan can't route to the router.

I suspect with your config if you assigned a static IP on the wan side you wouldn't be able to ping that IP from any internal device.

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#1403665 10-Oct-2015 21:46

DarkShadow:
davidcole:

Incidentally tied connecting a Windows machine directly via PPPoE and neither password seemed to work either.

If you want to do this, you will need to set VLAN tagging 10 in your network card's driver settings.

Also, can you confirm what is the color of the lights you see on the ONT?

I'm assuming the ONT is going as I can plug in the supplied modem and the internet all goes. But jesus they're nasty, I don't know how you're supposed to reference local machines as there's no local name resolution.

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#1403668 10-Oct-2015 21:48

BarTender:
Jase2985: password doesnt matter as long as its not blank

That used to matter, but it doesn't anymore after recent upgrades.

PPPoE (not DHCP as that won't work!) on VLAN 10 and preferably a username of something (doesn't even need an @ symbol in there) and a password of something. "a" for both username and password is fine.

Your switch config is all wrong: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=32650
and http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/network/switch for some reference
config 'switch_vlan' 
        option 'vlan' '1' 
        option 'ports' '1 2 3 4 5t' 
 
config 'switch_vlan' 
        option 'vlan' '10' 
        option 'ports' '0t 5t'
config 'interface'  'wan' 
   option 'ifname'  'eth0.10' 
   option 'proto'   'pppoe' 
   option 'username' 'spark' 
   option 'password' 'spark'
Then plug into port 0 which is the WAN port on your router. The main thing is having the system switch interface (5t) on both sides. Otherwise the internal vlan can't route to the router.

I suspect with your config if you assigned a static IP on the wan side you wouldn't be able to ping that IP from any internal device.

Ta will give that a go tomorrow.

Luckiy I've actually got 2 gargoyle capable routers so I can switch them in and out. Just takes a bit for the dhcp to work....the gargoyle is nicely setup, the hg630b just sets them randomly in order.

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#1403709 11-Oct-2015 08:50

hmm no joy there. As far as I can tell the LAN light on the ont never changes colour, but flashes on traffic.

When mine connected there's a couple of bursts (seems to be sending traffic only) and the router lists no wan.

Plug the proper and off it goes.

Seems to be no way that I know of debugging the connection.

Any other ideas?

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#1403798 11-Oct-2015 11:45

davidcole: hmm no joy there. As far as I can tell the LAN light on the ont never changes colour, but flashes on traffic.

When mine connected there's a couple of bursts (seems to be sending traffic only) and the router lists no wan.

The correct lights are as follows:
Power Green
Optical Green
Lan1 Orange or Green (either is fine, it shouldn't be chaging color)

As it works if you just use HG630b, we can conclude the fibre is working fine. Any problems would be with the router settings, probably the VLAN part.

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#1403932 11-Oct-2015 18:03

davidcole: hmm no joy there. As far as I can tell the LAN light on the ont never changes colour, but flashes on traffic.

When mine connected there's a couple of bursts (seems to be sending traffic only) and the router lists no wan.

Plug the proper and off it goes.

Seems to be no way that I know of debugging the connection.

Any other ideas?

You can debug the connection using logread to see the ppd log messages, upping the log level to verbose if necessary. See this guide:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/log.messages

If you get the log message "timeout waiting for PAD0 packets" or similar, this is probably incorrect VLAN configuration.

The switch config posted on the thread looks about the same as my working one with Gargoyle on a TP-Link WR1043ND. You can check what the loaded configuration is with the command "swconfig dev switch0 show".

Also if you change something on the Gargoyle Connection/Basic page, it will rewrite the etc/config/network file, losing your edits.

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#1403934 11-Oct-2015 18:08

numfarr:
davidcole: hmm no joy there. As far as I can tell the LAN light on the ont never changes colour, but flashes on traffic.

When mine connected there's a couple of bursts (seems to be sending traffic only) and the router lists no wan.

Plug the proper and off it goes.

Seems to be no way that I know of debugging the connection.

Any other ideas?

You can debug the connection using logread to see the ppd log messages, upping the log level to verbose if necessary. See this guide:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/log.messages

If you get the log message "timeout waiting for PAD0 packets" or similar, this is probably incorrect VLAN configuration.

The switch config posted on the thread looks about the same as my working one with Gargoyle on a TP-Link WR1043ND. You can check what the loaded configuration is with the command "swconfig dev switch0 show".

Also if you change something on the Gargoyle Connection/Basic page, it will rewrite the etc/config/network file, losing your edits.

Do you have v1.8 hardware or 2.1?

I've got one of each, and have managed to get neither working.

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#1403937 11-Oct-2015 18:32

Yes mine is v1.8 hardware, with Gargoyle v1.8.0. Also I am on Slingshot not Spark, but it uses the same VLAN.

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#1403938 11-Oct-2015 18:35

numfarr: Yes mine is v1.8 hardware, with Gargoyle v1.8.0. Also I am on Slingshot not Spark, but it uses the same VLAN.

Can you post your ful config for me (minus any pppoe credentials)

numfarr

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#1404035 11-Oct-2015 22:19

davidcole:
numfarr: Yes mine is v1.8 hardware, with Gargoyle v1.8.0. Also I am on Slingshot not Spark, but it uses the same VLAN.

Can you post your ful config for me (minus any pppoe credentials)

Sure, I put it in http://pastebin.com/x20CViky . The DNS addresses are for OpenDNS, you probably don't want that.