Using pfSense as the gateway for Bell Fibe bonded DSL

jerfer

Thanks, but I'm in a different situation. Not being served by Bell's FTTH (fibre to the home) service, my HH3K is both the VDSL modem and switch. The HH3K internally handles the VLAN switching for the TV boxes and I've not been able to figure out how to replicate that with a pfSense box in the DMZ.

To be honest, I've given up on the whole endeavour. Just when I thought I had it figured out, with TV working on the PVR, I realized that it was only working because the non-PVR TV box was bridging its WiFi and Ethernet connections and the PVR box was being routed over Ethernet to the non-PVR box over then over its WiFi to the HH3K. Everything stopped working the minute I unplugged the non-PVR box. I was actually quite impressed at the level of resilience that was designed into these boxes, they're quite opportunistic.

In any case, I've shelved the project until FTTH becomes available here.

claferriere

@jerfer For your internet connexion to work, did you have to change the MAC address in pfsense ?

jerfer

@claferriere

No, I didn't have to spoof the HH3K MAC address for the internet to work. I tried it using the real MAC and the HH3K MAC and was able to get internet access in both cases.