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#281520 22-Feb-2021 19:26

Hi, have a customer that I need to replace the Vigor 120 ADSL modem for, this unit bridges pppoa<>pppoe to a Fortigate UTM.

I dont have the password details and dread the thought of dealing with the help line, so the question is, are the creds just ignored placeholders as with other ISP's pppoe sessions (ie port based ID) or are they really required, bearing in mind this is a business account.

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Cyril

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#2661290 22-Feb-2021 19:34

Hi Cyril

I had Spark credentials on a Vigor 130 connected to work Voda adsl before Xmas and worked fine.

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#2661293 22-Feb-2021 19:39

IIRC:
- Customers with Vodafone A or B on their bill will have port based auth and the creds are ignored
- Customers with Vodafone C (ex-TCL) will need to use their Clearnet credentials
- Customers with Vodafone D (ex-WXC)... no idea but can find out tomorrow if needed

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#2661302 22-Feb-2021 19:44

Hi, thanks for the responses so far, what I do know is that Voda insisted on sending their sh!tty Ultra Hub, what a waste of space, anyway the creds loaded in the pppoa session on that did not match what is in the Fortigates pppoe instance (from previous IT company) yet it worked and I got the same static IP.

So I am leaning toward thinking the creds are just dummy place holders and port ID is king.

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#2661349 22-Feb-2021 19:52

Off topic but if the fortigate subscription is due soon I would suggest the FG-60e-dsl

UTM/DSL router AIO

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#2661356 22-Feb-2021 19:57

FG-60e-DSL, hmmmmmm interesting, especially since I have failed to get the SFP-VDSL modules to work with Fortigates, had to transit them via a switch to get it working.

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#2661431 22-Feb-2021 20:36

cyril7:
FG-60e-DSL, hmmmmmm interesting, especially since I have failed to get the SFP-VDSL modules to work with Fortigates, had to transit them via a switch to get it working.

Thanks Tim

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#2662540 25-Feb-2021 08:36

cyril7:

Hi, thanks for the responses so far, what I do know is that Voda insisted on sending their sh!tty Ultra Hub, what a waste of space, anyway the creds loaded in the pppoa session on that did not match what is in the Fortigates pppoe instance (from previous IT company) yet it worked and I got the same static IP.

So I am leaning toward thinking the creds are just dummy place holders and port ID is king.

Cyril

Hi Cyril,

Our connections are port based authenticated, so you can type anything in the username/password fields and you'll be good to go :)

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#2662545 25-Feb-2021 09:11

Cheers Michael, appreciate the response.

Cyril