On the MMS field, shouldn't you have this set either blank or also 1492? (genuine question) As I understand it, PFsense should automatically remove 40 bytes from the MTU setting. Setting this to 1452 will actually result in a MSS of 1412 and cost performance. Also, for "dial on demand", that's not needed. From the manual: "The default behavior for a PPP link is to immediately connect and immediately attempt to reconnect when a link is lost. This behavior is described as Always On. Dial-on-Demand delays this connection attempt. When set, the firewall waits until a packet attempts to leave the via this interface to make a connection attempt. Once the firewall connects it will not automatically disconnect."
Thanks - BT are in the area at the moment laying fibre and I'm keen to ditch the cellular backup WAN for wired so this is good info as I run pfsense. Next thing to see is if I can l can aggregate two different providers (VM 1Gb and BT 1Gb) or if I can only use one and use the other as fail-over in which case I'll just go for 100Mb from BT.
Will be putting a pfsense install on a toob connection, think they don't require PPPoE credentials. It will be a CGNAT connection in the first instance as it's for a family member who doesn't need anything hosted or complex.
Thanks for this. Would it be the same settings (except obviously username and password) for Sky broadband FTTP please? Also what hardware would you recommend to replace the wi-fi of the ISP router?
I'd assume so, haven't come across sky fttp yet. We like unifi for wifi, but any AP should do you really (tp-link?); you could even use the ISP router as an access point
Jammy bugger, don't think we've got anything that coming to our exchange. 😒 Nice walk through as well. Nice to know about pc-engine, as that's what I use at the moment. Got to remember to factor that in to the cost. Roughly how much is that per month.
Have you managed to work out how to add a sip device such as a grand stream to add analog devices to pick up bt digital voice with a corporate lev 3 router and of pfsence in between
i have a block of 5 static ip's allocated. The hub 2 sees them, it shows the bt gateway etc in the hub2 config. when pfsense connectsit doesnt connect to the same static gateway so assume its not gonna give me the statics. Ive added the 5 stack as virtual ip's but thing I havent got that far yet Strangly even when its connected it still doesnt give me internet access
Great video, worked perfectly with EE Broadband using these details
Glad it worked for you, appreciate the feedback letting others know it worked 💪
Thank you for your efforts to help others.
Thank you!
A nice & concise guide Sam, thank you!
That's an interesting Malta mug there, all the better to fill with coffee 🙂
Thank you 😘
Thanks fella, I’m just about to setup Opnsense on BT fibre so it’s nice to see it works fine.
Glad to help
On the MMS field, shouldn't you have this set either blank or also 1492? (genuine question)
As I understand it, PFsense should automatically remove 40 bytes from the MTU setting. Setting this to 1452 will actually result in a MSS of 1412 and cost performance.
Also, for "dial on demand", that's not needed. From the manual:
"The default behavior for a PPP link is to immediately connect and immediately attempt to reconnect when a link is lost. This behavior is described as Always On. Dial-on-Demand delays this connection attempt. When set, the firewall waits until a packet attempts to leave the via this interface to make a connection attempt. Once the firewall connects it will not automatically disconnect."
Thanks - BT are in the area at the moment laying fibre and I'm keen to ditch the cellular backup WAN for wired so this is good info as I run pfsense.
Next thing to see is if I can l can aggregate two different providers (VM 1Gb and BT 1Gb) or if I can only use one and use the other as fail-over in which case I'll just go for 100Mb from BT.
You can certainly use failver, and load balancing. I have some videos planned on this.
Will be putting a pfsense install on a toob connection, think they don't require PPPoE credentials. It will be a CGNAT connection in the first instance as it's for a family member who doesn't need anything hosted or complex.
Great video. Thanks. Would the mtu and miss be the same as vodaphone fibre as well please do you know
Thanks for feedback, yes should be same settings
@@sheridans Thank you
Thanks for this. Would it be the same settings (except obviously username and password) for Sky broadband FTTP please? Also what hardware would you recommend to replace the wi-fi of the ISP router?
I'd assume so, haven't come across sky fttp yet. We like unifi for wifi, but any AP should do you really (tp-link?); you could even use the ISP router as an access point
Jammy bugger, don't think we've got anything that coming to our exchange. 😒 Nice walk through as well.
Nice to know about pc-engine, as that's what I use at the moment. Got to remember to factor that in to the cost.
Roughly how much is that per month.
Max speed I had was ~3mb for near 10 years at home due to length of the line. A welcome upgrade 😀
Is this the same if you connect a tp link Wi-Fi router in settings
Have you managed to work out how to add a sip device such as a grand stream to add analog devices to pick up bt digital voice with a corporate lev 3 router and of pfsence in between
I don't think you can do this with DV - have to use the super hub. Let me know if you find out how
@@pear2166one person did it by reflashing an Asus ac66 with open lynx, but haven’t heard of a pfsence method yet
i have a block of 5 static ip's allocated. The hub 2 sees them, it shows the bt gateway etc in the hub2 config. when pfsense connectsit doesnt connect to the same static gateway so assume its not gonna give me the statics. Ive added the 5 stack as virtual ip's but thing I havent got that far yet
Strangly even when its connected it still doesnt give me internet access
1:03 PPPoE on pfSense (FreeBSD) is single threaded, which is likely the reason why
Thank you, I am aware. The jaguar processor was the issue, which was the reason I purchased the new j4125 to test if that could route at 1gb
@@sheridanshow the test has gone? I have 2.5 GB via pppoe and im note sure a mini box would work. Im thinking One with Intel n100 or even n200-300.