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MarbleBenches

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Wannabe Geek

#2324497 25-Sep-2019 11:42

noroad:

MarbleBenches:

I am also trying to find out the username and password for the router. I tried admin and last 6 digits of MAC address to no avail. I want to find out the PPPoE details so I am able to configure my own router to use instead as it has much better range, automatic 2.5 and 5ghz swapping, and better harddrive/SAMBA support. It's unfortunate that this is so hard, as I am fairly happy with the rest of the service.

Use pppoe, any username/password will work, the network uses port based authentication.

Hi,

I've managed to flash OpenWRT to my router which supports vlan, I'm not sure what to do to configure it though. Here is what the menu looks like;

Any help is appreciated!

fe31nz

1228 posts

Uber Geek

#2324935 25-Sep-2019 23:38

MarbleBenches:

Hi,

I've managed to flash OpenWRT to my router which supports vlan, I'm not sure what to do to configure it though. Here is what the menu looks like;

Any help is appreciated!

First, some basics about how a VLAN tagged switch works. Ethernet switches send packets along a bus that connects all the ports on the switch - all the ports see all the packets. Each port selects which packets to receive and which ones to ignore depending on their settings. When a switch is using VLANs, the ports look for the extra VLAN ID marker on the front of a packet, and if it is present, they read the VLAN ID value that follows that. They then decide to receive the packet if the VLAN ID matches any VLAN ID they have been told to receive. If the port is set to "untagged" for the VLAN ID of a packet it receives (rather than ignores), it will strip the VLAN tag from the front of the packet after it receives it.

If you set up a VLAN line in your switch settings where there are no ports set as tagged, the switch will do normal Ethernet switching as though it was not doing VLANs. The VLAN ID number on such a VLAN line in the settings is ignored. Each port will maintain a list of the MAC addresses of all packets it has seen coming in and out on that port, and it will receive any packet it sees that matches one of those MAC addresses. You can only have one such "all untagged" VLAN setting line. In your case, I think you can ignore this as you only have one Ethernet port on your CPU, so this sort of switching is fairly useless for you. My Linksys WRT1900AC router running OpenWRT has two Ethernet ports (eth0 and eth1) on its CPU, so I can use this option as I can differentiate traffic by which CPU port it uses, as well as by VLAN ID.

I am afraid that the VLAN setup you need depends on how you have your interfaces configured. I believe you will need to add a new VLAN 10, and set it to tagged on the WLAN port, so the packets sent out there via the PPPoE connection will have the VLAN 10 tag. On the CPU port, I believe you will also need to have it tagged, and set all the other ports to Off. Then you need to set up your interfaces to send all the Internet traffic to VLAN 10. That is the bit I am not sure about, as my OpenWRT router (Linksys WRT1900AC) has two Ethernet ports on its CPU and both are able to be used to talk to the switch. So I can send my WLAN traffic untagged on my CPU's eth1 port. You have only one Ethernet port on your CPU, so you have to differentiate the traffic for the Internet (to go to the WLAN port) from the traffic to go to your LAN ports. You do that using the VLAN tags.

As your current switch setup stands, all traffic sent out the CPU eth0 port with VLAN ID 1 will be received on all three LAN ports and untagged there. In the opposite direction, traffic arriving on any of the LAN ports will be tagged with VLAN ID 1 and that will get the packets received on the CPU eth0 port. Similarly, all traffic on the CPU port that has a VLAN 2 tag will go to the WLAN port where it will be untagged before being sent on (presumably via PPPoE). All packets that are untagged on the WLAN port will be tagged as VLAN 2 and sent to the CPU eth0 port. The VLAN 2 traffic will only be management and negotiation packets, not your Internet traffic which will be on VLAN 10 (after you set that up) so that it will be accepted by your ISP's router as Internet traffic at the other end.

MarbleBenches

5 posts

Wannabe Geek

#2325151 26-Sep-2019 11:23

Thanks very much for going into so much depth! I'll be sure to give it a shot today :)

Damondo

2 posts

Wannabe Geek

#2348212 4-Nov-2019 18:52

noroad:

tonyparker:

Hi

I have recently join Nova Broadband and I am wanting to buy a router to use instead of the included one (it's range isn't very good). Is there any specific type of router you would suggest and any custom setup needed?

Thanks

As long as you don't use Nova voice any standard router will do the trick. Settings are vlan 10 PPPoE for UFB/VDSL. Any username/password will log in the PPPoE as Nova used port based authentication. Your list of router options are large and varied so I won't recommend a specific device just that there is no non-standard requirements.

I'm currently on TrustPower using an Asus ac-68u but will be switching to Nova this week and plan to continue using my Asus router. Are the settings here at https://www.pbtech.co.nz/ASUSISPSettings#SparkRTAC the correct settings to configure my router to Nova's UFB network?

Thanks

noroad

949 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#2348338 4-Nov-2019 22:56

Damondo:

I'm currently on TrustPower using an Asus ac-68u but will be switching to Nova this week and plan to continue using my Asus router. Are the settings here at https://www.pbtech.co.nz/ASUSISPSettings#SparkRTAC the correct settings to configure my router to Nova's UFB network?

Thanks

The settings as per the Spark example will work fine, you can user any username/password in the PPPoE settings.

Damondo

2 posts

Wannabe Geek

#2348445 5-Nov-2019 11:50

noroad:

Damondo:

I'm currently on TrustPower using an Asus ac-68u but will be switching to Nova this week and plan to continue using my Asus router. Are the settings here at https://www.pbtech.co.nz/ASUSISPSettings#SparkRTAC the correct settings to configure my router to Nova's UFB network?

Thanks

The settings as per the Spark example will work fine, you can user any username/password in the PPPoE settings.

That's great, thank you!

xlinknz

1127 posts

Uber Geek

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#3016432 3-Jan-2023 14:24

Hi all

I'm considering changing to Nova broadband (we have gas with them too)

1. Do they provide IPv6?

2. How is their service?

3. Are they a VNO (if so who) or have their own network?

4. How are those Nokia Wifi Beacon 2's?

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xlinknz

1127 posts

Uber Geek

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#3019178 9-Jan-2023 18:57

xlinknz:

Hi all

I'm considering changing to Nova broadband (we have gas with them too)

1. Do they provide IPv6?

2. How is their service?

3. Are they a VNO (if so who) or have their own network?

4. How are those Nokia Wifi Beacon 2's

bump

Anyone got anything bad to say about Nova UFB Internet, before I change to then? 🙂

farcus

1554 posts

Uber Geek

#3019317 9-Jan-2023 21:11

xlinknz:

bump

Anyone got anything bad to say about Nova UFB Internet, before I change to then? 🙂

presumably you have read through this thread?
The fact that there is very little discussion on geekzone around Nova internet could be interpreted as either comforting or concerning.
Personally, I have no (zero) experience with Nova internet. However, I do have experience with Nova as a power provider, so based on this, my recommendation would be to avoid. But . . . my recommendation could be 100% inaccurate and they might be great.

noroad

949 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#3019351 10-Jan-2023 00:00

xlinknz:

3. Are they a VNO (if so who) or have their own network?

Devoli

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