PODA fiber optics or VDSL support (PPPoE over VLAN)

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Czech providers of PODA fiber optics internet or VDSL internet (similar in Germany) provide connectivity with PPPoE over a VLAN.

This is not supported out of the box in the web UI in Nethsecurity and has to be manually configured over uci or editing the config files. (Add a VLAN and use the VLAN for WAN with PPPoE instead of the eth1)

The result of manually configuring is here:

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Would be nice to support this very common option (PPPoE over a VLAN for WAN connectivity) out of the box.
Just in Czech republic are 4.2 million households/connections with this setup.

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It’s totally possible to configure a PPPoE over VLAN: I did it on my firewall last week.

Follow this steps:

  1. Create the VLAN device: Network interfaces — NethSecurity documentation
  2. Configure a PPPoE WAN on it
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My company also provides me with free FTTH connectivity with VLAN tagging, so I’m very familiar with this setup.

I can confirm that configuring PPPoE over VLAN on NethSecurity is absolutely possible and, as pointed out by Giacomo Sanchietti, it can be done directly from the GUI in about 2 minutes — no need to manually edit UCI settings or configuration files.

It’s a straightforward procedure, fully supported from the web interface, and works perfectly for FTTH deployments using VLAN tagging like the one described.

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