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Getting 2 public IP addresses on Purefibre. Can this be done with a single cable into the ONT?
Telus fibre advertises 2 public IP addresses, although getting information about how to configure and obtain them is really hard. The tech support people assured me that it wasn't possible. I told ...
As far as I know, any device would need to be connected through an unmanaged switch, as you have discovered, and appear to the ONT as independent routers.
Telus staff will not provide the detail you are asking on residential accounts, as their service plan is a simple single connection through their supplied equipment. Please share what you learn in your exploration.
"I'm not sure how to do this with the current setup since the T3200M doesn't support VLANs. "
Instead, a managed switch might have been your answer, with onboard VLAN capabilities.
Hmm... I suppose that might be possible. Ideally, I want one server + TM3200M with one of the public IPs and another router on the other public IP address. I could plug these three things into my managed switch and configure it appropriately. The only thing is that I am slightly uncomfortable with connecting my server directly to the internet without going through a router/firewall first.
"The problem that I have is that I want to get rid of the Telus router and use my own devices. I can't figure out how to get the TVs and PVR to work without the Telus router."
I've been doing this now myself for weeks. I too have been using a unmanaged switch for now, but want to change to using a managed switch, with VLAN capability, for other purposes, I just haven't set the managed switch up for the job.
You can get routers with IPTV/multimedia capability, you just have to set them up for Telus. It's been done. You just have to find one that is known to work well. Some people have tried this with cheaper/lesser capable routers and have had them die, due to stress. If I were you I'd keep the "Free" Telus router just for this purpose, as it is very good at what it does. What are your needs that you want to get rid of the Telus router?
I, personally, love the use of two physically separate networks for just the redundant nature of them, firstly. Everything else about it, is gravy.
One Nokia G240G-A ONT is connected, the other is just a spare, left behind by Telus, when we hade two fully separate 1Gb fiber installed connection. I bought a cheap T3200M off Craig's for $30, just because I'm so used to working on it, it was an easy fit as a dual network. My plans are to now expand one network at a time, without disruption to the other.
I have a WRT32 sitting up there, with DD-WRT on it, I also have a AX11000 WiFi router off of one of the T3200M acting in AP mode. The AX11000 is fully capable of doing IPTV, but I have now desire to use it as such. Too expensive to waste on TV duty.
Thanks for sharing. You have actually managed to get the TV and PVR to work without the T3200M? That's the main issue. I haven't actually found a report of anyone getting this to work (some seem to get it working, but only for 10 s).
My reasons for getting rid of the T3200M is that it's performance/stability isn't sufficient for my needs. I have two servers, each ideally requiring their own public IP. They both process quite a bit of traffic, and I found that the T3200M was causing me issues requiring it to be frequently rebooted.
Instead, I'd like to use my dedicated firewall device (a protecli vault 6-port i5 device, running OPNsense) to bring in the two IP addresses from the ONT. I can easily do this, but getting a working configuration of the IPTV eludes me. Besides protectli vault having much, much more processing power than the T3200M, it would be nice to get rid of unnecessary equipment.Side note: I used to have an ASUS RT-AC3100, which was really a top-of-the-line, really expensive router when I purchased it. I noticed that it was having trouble providing me with the full gigabit speeds if I used QOS. I also noticed that page loading would often "stutter" or hang for a few seconds. The baby monitor was unreliable, and other issues. After upgrading to the OPNsense box, everything runs perfectly.
That's nice to here you found some alternatives to the T3200M that give you better results, I understand your want or need to not use the T3200M, but it does do a great job of at least one thing, IPTV, and that's the only thing I really want to keep it for. I'd rather not waste/tax a expensive router for something as mundane as IPTV, let alone the headache of setting it up. T3200M is free and you can still use your own router as a parallel separate physical network. You can even put the T3200 into bridge mode (port1) and use your own router off of it.
"Instead, I'd like to use my dedicated firewall device (a protecli vault 6-port i5 device, running OPNsense) to bring in the two IP addresses from the ONT."
How will you use the protecli vault 6-port i5 device to pull two WAN IP addresses? You could buy a double WAN router.
I've never gotten or attempted to get my AX11000 to run IPTV. I might try for fun, but I would never actually use it for that permanently.
