Community Fibre ONT pfsense elimination of double natting

[Sir Asvald]

Hello all, 

 

I am trying to setup my Pfsense as the main "router", I want to connect the ONT to my Pfsense box and for it to get the Public IP address, how would I be able to do it?

 

Below is my current network and my planned network.

 

[BoomerDutch]

Whats that program called you used in picture. (I used it before)

 

As for the setup, you'll need to work together with isp to set it up correctly.

 

My IT coworker has managed fiber connection to the pfsense by talking to provider and setting it up.

 

Not sure if it's same for you.

 

(Basically provider gave us vlan information and it worked)

 

Unless it's normal isp router then you'll be able to get dhcpd from ont anyways?

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, BoomerDutch said:

Whats that program called you used in picture. (I used it before)

 

As for the setup, you'll need to work together with isp to set it up correctly.

 

My IT coworker has managed fiber connection to the pfsense by talking to provider and setting it up.

 

Not sure if it's same for you.

 

(Basically provider gave us vlan information and it worked)

 

Unless it's normal isp router then you'll be able to get dhcpd from ont anyways?

Software is called Cisco Packet Tracer.

[Sir Asvald]

5 hours ago, BoomerDutch said:

Whats that program called you used in picture. (I used it before)

 

As for the setup, you'll need to work together with isp to set it up correctly.

 

My IT coworker has managed fiber connection to the pfsense by talking to provider and setting it up.

 

Not sure if it's same for you.

 

(Basically provider gave us vlan information and it worked)

 

Unless it's normal isp router then you'll be able to get dhcpd from ont anyways?

It's normal router, it's a Linksys MX5600.

[BoomerDutch]

1 hour ago, Sir Asvald said:

It's normal router, it's a Linksys MX5600.

Then I don't understand what you're need.

 

I'm seeing you're networking experienced.

To me it should same functionality.

 

All it's changed that if you remove isp router and just connect it, it will take over and become main router.

 

Since if i understand correctly its functioning as dhcpd client just like isp router?

 

You could copy configuration from isp router and configure into pfsense.

 

Unless those switches needs to be configured and put into vlans to the pfsense?

[Sir Asvald]

20 minutes ago, BoomerDutch said:

Then I don't understand what you're need.

 

I'm seeing you're networking experienced.

To me it should same functionality.

 

All it's changed that if you remove isp router and just connect it, it will take over and become main router.

 

Since if i understand correctly its functioning as dhcpd client just like isp router?

 

You could copy configuration from isp router and configure into pfsense.

 

Unless those switches needs to be configured and put into vlans to the pfsense?

My current setup, my network is double natted, which is causing issues... I want the Pfsense box to replace the Linksys router and use the Linksys as a AP. 

 

I also have my on Homelab which I want to keep separate.

 

[BoomerDutch]

5 hours ago, Sir Asvald said:

My current setup, my network is double natted, which is causing issues... I want the Pfsense box to replace the Linksys router and use the Linksys as a AP. 

 

I also have my on Homelab which I want to keep separate.

 

Then i would consider using vlan, that would make connection that communicate between two points into one single point connection it seperate with other connections.

 

Would that solve issue you're having?

[Sir Asvald]

4 hours ago, BoomerDutch said:

Then i would consider using vlan, that would make connection that communicate between two points into one single point connection it seperate with other connections.

 

Would that solve issue you're having?

Sorry for not being clear, I do have VLANs setup. Since my lab is hosting a few services, it's causing issues. Not only that, I have a site to site VPN as well, which is having issues connecting back to my home lab.

 

 

[LIGISTX]

I’m confused… if you have a linksys router acting as the edge router, and you want pfsense to be your edge router……. Just put pfsense immediately after the ONT into the edge router “position”. 

[Sir Asvald]

17 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

I’m confused… if you have a linksys router acting as the edge router, and you want pfsense to be your edge router……. Just put pfsense immediately after the ONT into the edge router “position”. 

That's what I want to do, my main question is that I want the pfsense router to receive the Public WAN IP from the ONT, I want to know how I can achieve that..

 

 

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, Sir Asvald said:

That's what I want to do, my main question is that I want the pfsense router to receive the Public WAN IP from the ONT, I want to know how I can achieve that..

 

 

Is it a standard ONT or an ONT Router Combo? A standard ONT it should just be plug and play. A combo you need to look in the settings for bridge mode or IP pass thru mode. Either of those two settings should do what you need.

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, Donut417 said:

Is it a standard ONT or an ONT Router Combo? A standard ONT it should just be plug and play. A combo you need to look in the settings for bridge mode or IP pass thru mode. Either of those two settings should do what you need.

A standard ONT.

[LIGISTX]

1 hour ago, Sir Asvald said:

A standard ONT.

Then just plug pfsense WAN port into the ONT. Just replace the linksys router with pfsense.