[RndTbl] Bridging the "Giga" Bell Modem for Fibre

[Alberto Abrao]

Hello everyome,

following up on our last meeting's conversation about the Bell "Giga 
Hub" modem, I would like to ask if someone knows a way to properly set 
it to "bridge mode".


The modem web interface provides a "Advanced DMZ" mode. There, one is 
able to provide a MAC Address of an interface who'd be receive external 
IP as the leased address after a DHCP request.

The problem with that is, if you reboot the machine, although subsequent 
DHCP requests will successfully provide the external IP, Internet 
connectivity gets extremely choppy. The only way to fix it is to reboot 
the modem.

There are many guides on how to do this for Bell, but that refers to 
Bell itself, not BellMTS. Others also point to settings fotr Bell 
Alliant (Maritimes). I could not find anything specific for Bell MTS. 
These settings are often a PPPoE incantation of sorts, username/password 
and potentially a specific VLAN. Folks in Ontario had luck with 35, 
Maritimes use 15 or something along those lines, others said you can 
just use your Bell ID and password. The patterns provided do not make 
any sense for MTS, as far as I could tell.

Calling support would be useless - I tried - seeing that they're all 
based in Ontario now.

Would anyone here know, or know someone who would, the incantation to 
make this work?

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Kind regards,
Alberto Abrao