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

[Gerald Brandt]

I just forward everything via the DMZ setting to my firewall. I'm double 
nat'd on the way out, but that's not really an issue anymore.


public IP --> via DMZ --> my firewall (with static IP) --> my internal 
network

x.x.x.x             -->           192.168.2.2 -->                 172.x.x.x


Nothing's failed for me yet.


Gerald


On 2024-02-07 10:39, Alberto Abrao wrote:
> 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?
>