Transparent Bridge config for CenturyLink Zyxel C3000Z
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I did this with my bonded pair about 3 years ago. I do not have it anymore but it worked as it was supposed to.
My guess is an issue with your original config. Can you simply try setting up from scratch?
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I'm not entirely certain what happened but I have everything working again. I don't know why pfSense failed to boot after a while. I needed to specify the interface to VLAN mappings in the console for it to boot up. Then somehow my switch just got in a funky state where i need to keep restarting everything until VLANs and DHCP stabilized. I know that sounds odd, but that's the wonky state I got myself into and I don't fully comprehend it yet. And now.. everything is working just fine and I have pfSense working with my bonded DSL modem in a transparent bridge. The issue I had before was the transport mode in the modem when I configured the transparent bridge. So it had nothing at all to do with pfSense settings in the end. But somehow it got jacked in the process.
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I know this is an old thread but this is my exact issue, I'm running a c3000z on a bonded line through CL as well. Every time I try to change it to transparent bridge mode, I lose my connection. I do keep a connection to the pfSense box but it doesn't ever get a WAN connection. Maybe I'm dumb and don't know exactly how to set the VLAN crap properly. I've got the pppoe info in, tried following a guide I found online about setting the vlans but that was on an older pfSense version and couldn't quite follow it correctly, plus their hardware had more than 2 ports. Any help would be appreciated.
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How do you have it configured now?
I assume it shows the NIC and VLAN as UP but the PPPoE session is failing to connect?
You would normally have to create the VLAN on the parent NIC you are going to use then create the PPPoE session on that VLAN.
Steve
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@stephenw10 I have it back to just a standard DHCP wan connection. I did have the VLAN setup on the wan port like the guide I followed said, then I tied the PPP to that port, I think it was something like bcae1.201 but I can't remember exactly. After posting here, I found out that it may have been the fault of CenturyLink not giving me the full PPPoE credentials, I'll have to try the new creds after work today. I was watching the little arrow for the wan connection on the status screen go up and down, and in the logs I remember seeing a lot of reconnect attempts and the interface going up and down.
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@oldhome7 The first thing I would do is try the PPOE credentials on theodem itself. Most DSL brushes are designed to be automatically configured and the username and password is not what you might think or find on your own.
The second is save your pfSense confit and reset the entire thing and try just a completely fresh configuration that only has the WAN set to the bridged modem with no other changes. I have had a few issues with pfSense when I make changes like this. In fact, recently it didn't work right until I did a factory reset three times in a row. I have no clue why.
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@scottlindner, I actually got the credentials from tech support, they just happened to leave out the "@centurylink.net" part. I found that out from another forum that lead me to the self install page on CenturyLink which gave me the same credentials but with the @ portion attached this time. I'm going to try those in the pfSense box tonight and see where that leads.
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@scottlindner well, I put the updated credentials in and made no difference with or without the @ section. I was also looking through the logs and see that I'm getting an IP address, primary and secondary DNS, and a bunch of other success messages. But I still have no internet connectivity, Chrome says either DNS cannot be found or no internet, and trying to run a ping or tracert in windows it cannot find host/unable to resolve target system.
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Can pfSense connect out though? From Diag > Ping or Diag > DNS Lookup?
That's a completely different problem if it's only clients behind it that cannot connect.
Steve
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@oldhome7 I seem to remember that the VLAN setting should still be on the modem but then set PPPOe interface on pfSense. No VLAN.
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@oldhome7
I have a PPPoE bonded pair from centurylink and when I set it up I enabled transparent bridging on modem and rebooted modem.
On pfSense I entered PPPoE login credentials no vlan or anything else. Worked for about a year like that.
