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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.
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.
The nice thing about the Protectli Vault OPNsense device is that each port is it's own network interface. So instead of having
ONT -> switch -> T3200M on port 1+ Protectli Vault on point 2
I'd just have
ONT -> switch -> Protecli port 1 + Protectli Vault port 2.
Each port then gets it's own public IP. I can then use firewal rules to control which devices get what public IP.
Sure, it's a bit more complicated, but I like the idea of getting rid of unnecessary equipment (especially if that equipment isn't performing very well).
In any case, the tv complicates things and it may just not be worth the hassle. I'll try using the T3200M to get one of the IPs again and see if it works OK."I'd then like the Telus T3200M router to get it's public IP address from[through] the Vault instead of directly from the ONT."
Wouldn't the Vault have to acting just as a NAT-less switch (transparent), for the T3200M to be able to pull the second WAN IP address? Or maybe it would NOT have to pull a WAN address and still work for the IPTV service.
You need to find a Router like the Vault that can also do IPTV service. Though there are lots of other routers that can.
