PPPoE with VLANs (Phone/IPTV)
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Hello,
I'm kinda new to pfsense, I was mainly using it for OpenVPN, but lately I was having more and more issues with my modem (Fritzbox 5491), cried to ISP and they replaced it with 7530 + ONT. Now, 7350 is better but not all that much better, sadly.
That being said I was surprised when I found out I can connect Pfsense directly to ONT and start PPPoE session (just had to set WAN MAC to match Fritzbox MAC). With that internet is working... however Phones and IPTV aren't. Tbh I don't really care about phones but IPTV is kinda an issue.
I tried a few configs from internet but I'm kinda lost and nothing seems to be working.
IPTV "box" want's Internet + Multicast from what I saw, so when connected via Fritzbox IPTV "box" had DHCP IP (ie 192.168.1.22) and Multicast IP (something like 10.xx.xx.xx).
Now the question is, can I even make IPTV work with Pfsense and what would be the way to go about this? I've managed to get some logs from Fritzbox...
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PPPoE Forward: vcc 0/0 on vlan 3900 (no session)
NQOS-Bridge vcc:0(trunk=3998-3999, trunk untagged=no) -> vlan.id 3998, vlan.id 3999
NQOS-Bridge vcc:0(vlanid=3999) -> eth.sourceoui == 00:19:4B, eth.sourceoui == 00:1E:74, eth.sourceoui == 00:23:48, eth.sourceoui == 00:15:56, eth.sourceoui == 00so it seems they using tagged VLANs (3999 for TV and 3998 for phones) + untagged? And 3900 as default?
I'm kinda new to VLANs and I'm not sure if I need to find IPTV gateway IP as described here https://www.idscomm.ca/blog/bell-fibe-internet-iptv-with-pfsense or just properly "route"/bridge VLANs 3900 and 3999 to IPTV "box" thingy?
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And I've manged to find someone with similar setup and ISP but with mikrotik: https://netlab.si/howto-telekom-slovenije-vlans-with-hardware-offloading/
He managed to get IPTV to work, without IGMP Proxy but it's unclear to me if he was connected directly to ONT or ONT -> Modem-> Mikrotik
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There have been a number of other threads detailing this sort of setup for other providers but it usually complex!
Looking at the config he uses for Mikrotik it looks like he's just bridging the internal TV port with a vlan on the WAN side trunk. But I could be wrong, I don't use Mikrotik.
Steve
