I called Clink, they tested/reset the connection on their side, and suddenly it all started working fine. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. router. These groups have VLANs associated, which I realized after these instructions didn’t work. or Centurylink BRAS? VLAN tagging over the WAN port, since the ONT expects all packets between it and the router to be tagged with VLAN ID 201 Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I had CenturyLink FTTH internet installed on 01/15/2018. Initial Setup. dev.em.4.queue0.rxd_tail: 718 Ken — THANK YOU for your instructions here. if so, you must have a vlan enabled switch between your centurylink provided equipment and your pfsense box. Got my fiber yesterday…it’s awesome! Generally, I suggest you put the WAN (and possibly the LAN) on the builtin ports so that if you replace the NIC the WAN and LAN don’t lose their interface name/port. I've got it mostly set up for my network but I'd like to get rid of my modem if possible.The modem is a "zyxel c3000z" and I'm using centurylink fiber. So, here is how to do it. What’s missing? Once you have an interface configured, you create the PPPoE connection on that interface. That’s the basics. UPDATE: Well, the workaround worked for an hour or so. I only have a single queue. Once you’ve created the interface, make sure it’s linked to thePPP (PPoE) network port you just created, as shown in the screenshot above. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. The 4 port NIC is currently configured for the LAN on one port, and 1 builtin NIC is dedicated to the Centurylink connection. As part of the installation, they run fiber optic cable into your home which terminates at a Optical … Very good, that looks in-line with what I’m getting : . Woke up this morning with a down production system with same failure of PPP unable to connect whether or not I enable or disable “Configure NULL service name”. 2.4.4 updated without issue on my connection, with “null service name” configured. I’m not using an igb card, so in my case I don’t believe this is an issue. ( Log Out /  CenturyLink's fiber _could_ be as simple as just hooking up a … dev.em.4.queue0.rx_irq: 0 I’m running this in a wall mount low profile case: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470S CPU @ 2.90GHz I just got Centurylink’s gigabit GPON service installed yesterday, and have it configured in pfSense without their router today; but I’m only able to get ~330Mb/s vs. full 920Mb/s or so when using their router. The packets on the WAN connection to the TNC have to be on a VLAN tagged 201, For some inexplicable reason you need to connect via PPPoE, FreeNAS 11.1-U6 running on a great, well-baked home NAS with a SuperMicro motherboard with dual ethernet ports. I recently had a similar problem with the latest 2.4.3 update, where PPP was not negotiating with similar errors. dev.em.4.queue0.tx_irq: 0 Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. 4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s). I ordered a /29 from them and set each usable IP up as an IP alias (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/29, aliased to WAN) but none of those IPs are working. I would try only tagging either the physical nic on freenas side and just let the VM go untagged or vice versa. I've got CenturyLink fiber to the home gigabit, and I'm trying to not use their crappy rental router. Any chance you wanna come over? What hardware do you run pfSense on, for comparison? I'm attempting to set up a pfSense firewall/router in a VM on FreeNAS 11.1-U6, but I'm stuck. I’d be really curious to know what happens when you run this command in http://yourrouter/exec.php: Do you also see an rx queue without any packets? [wan_link0] Link : DOWN event Try posting a specific question to the reddit pfsense forum or to the pfsense.org forums . Copy everything you can from the router, but make sure you know your PPoE password before your technician leaves. I've got CenturyLink fiber to the home gigabit, and I'm trying to not use their crappy rental router. It’s schedule for a fix in 2.4.2). PS. I’m on 2.3.2 if that makes a difference. I’ve had their GPON support remove the VLAN tagging requirement from my ONT, so I’ve eliminated that and just have PPPoE to handle on pfSense. Thanks! This uid/pw is authenticated against a RADIUS server at the headend. Realtec and others simply cannot hold up to gigabit speeds. CL provisions PPoE over a VLAN which is dropped into your house via a special fiber terminator. There is a bug in the current version of pfSense 2.4.1 that does not allow you to use a pfSense vlan interface for PPPoE connections. Stupid question, have you powered off the Clink ONT device or called CLink? CenturyLink's fiber _could_ be as simple as just hooking up a … [wan_link0] Link : PPPoE connection timeout after 9 seconds Step 2. MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), thunderbolt ethernet. (Pictured: CenturyLink Optical Network Terminator (ONT) [left], CyberPower Battery UPS [center], Netgear Nighthawk R7000 [right]) My home recently got upgraded with CenturyLink’s gigabit fiber service, which is pretty damn great. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments, and I’ll try to answer them as I can. ( Log Out /  Followed your instructions and now I have my pfSense box connected directly to the mux, no C2000T in the path. One thing I haven’t been able to get working, however, is my IPv4 static block. I power cycled the ONT for about 15 mins which didn’t solve it. However, because I have some more demanding needs than many folks, I have to say I’m not a big fan of the required leased modem that comes with the service. Thanks! Current: 2900 MHz, Max: 2901 MHz They’re coming out next week to start your “Step 1” post army house. I’d go for Xeon-d but it’s too far down the road. Pay special attention to the highlighted settings. Such as ram, nic cards and case? How's bufferbloat? Broadcom and Intel seem to be best. I assigned no DHCP or IP information to that new interface, To my VM, I added a new NIC using vlan201 and the Intel interface type, In pfSense, I created a new VLAN using my WAN interface tagging it 201. I just set the VLAN ID in ESXi to the CL one and all was good! On the “Interfaces / PPPs / Edit” page I had to select actual “WAN” interface instead of the created interface for the PPPoE connection. [wan_link0] LCP: Down event CTL provides either paid, rented, or promotional routers to use with their service. Not getting full speed on CenturyLink's 1Gigabit fiber to the home internet. The last I talked to a GPON tech they said it should be 1500, which doesn’t align with everything else I’ve read online, however it did result in the best speed so far (average of 330Mb/s vs 290~300Mb/s when using MTUs of 1472, 1492). It looks like other people have had a mixed experience with the speed of Centurylink Gigabit Fiber in PFSense. If you check out this link fw-7541, you’ll find the router is only rated for 497Mb/s when NATing. dev.em.4.queue0.no_desc_avail: 0 You can use a switch to untag the frames, or you can create a VLAN interface in pfSense that recognizes the VLAN tagged frames natively. I posted in reddit, will try the forum when I get a chance. [wan_link0] Link : PPPoE: Connecting to ‘’. It wasn’t like price increases were accompanied by speed increases. ( Log Out /  David, CL provided me with a C2000T, wifi enabled, gigabit router. I ask because I wanted to build a pfSense box that can also handle a good squid/ip deny/traffic shaping suite (from what I’m reading on the pfSense forums that takes quite a bit of horsepower with a full gigabit connection). Looks awesome. Change ). dev.em.4.interrupts.tx_queue_min_thresh: 0. However, my upgrade to 2.4.4 and reboot resulted in an endless cycle of messages in Status/System Logs/PPP as follows (in ascending order), [wan_link0] Link : reconnection attempted 38 in 4 seconds ” You need to untag the packets from the vlan provided by the Centurylink Fiber box, which by default appears to be vlan 201. (ps. You will also need to know specifically what VLAN you are provisioned for. I did get this working BTW. Using my pfSense router. Might be worth a try. http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/JBC128F9E.html, Ken, dev.em.4.queue0.rxd_head: 719 (here is my post of the issue https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135873/upgrade-from-2-3-5-to-2-4-4-borked-ppoe-connection-with-centurylink). I had the same speed for 7 years. If you haven’t already guessed, you will require your PPoE UID/Password. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), How to Configure pfSense 2.2.2 for CenturyLink Gigabit – Seattle Edition, How to Configure pfSense 2.2.2 for IPv6 on CenturyLink Gigabit Fiber, https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=104282.0, https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135873/upgrade-from-2-3-5-to-2-4-4-borked-ppoe-connection-with-centurylink, ppp: [opt4] IFACE: Rename interface ng0 to pppoe0, ppp: [opt4] IPCP: state change Ack-Rcvd –> Opened, ppp: [opt4] IPCP: rec’d Configure Request #87 (Ack-Rcvd), ppp: [opt4] IPCP: state change Req-Sent –> Ack-Rcvd, ppp: [opt4] IPCP: rec’d Configure Ack #3 (Req-Sent), ppp: [opt4] IPCP: rec’d Configure Nak #2 (Req-Sent), ppp: [opt4] IPV6CP: state change Req-Sent –> Stopped, ppp: [opt4] IPV6CP: protocol was rejected by peer, ppp: [opt4_link0] LCP: protocol IPV6CP was rejected, ppp: [opt4_link0] LCP: rec’d Protocol Reject #39 (Opened), ppp: [opt4] COMPPROTO VJCOMP, 16 comp. To anyone wondering what the NIC driver in PFSense is doing to the CPU, just take a look at “top -SH” ran in the terminal, and look out for the interrupts that are shown, on some of the lower power CPUs that run PFSense out there, you might not have the headroom in the CPU to run the drivers for the less “professional grade” NICs. I’ve played around with the MTU values quite a bit, and haven’t noticed a huge difference. c) Configure the something you just created thusly: d) click”Show advanced options”, then click the Dial On Demand box, and enter “0” for the timeout. I forgot to check on that, I suppose that makes sense though it is a bit disappointing (my bad, though). channels, no comp-cid, ppp: [opt4] IPCP: rec’d Configure Reject #1 (Req-Sent), ppp: [opt4] IPV6CP: state change Starting –> Req-Sent, ppp: [opt4] IPCP: state change Starting –> Req-Sent, ppp: [opt4] IPV6CP: state change Initial –> Starting, ppp: [opt4] IPCP: state change Initial –> Starting, ppp: [opt4] Bundle: Status update: up 1 link, total bandwidth 64000 bps, ppp: [opt4_link0] Link: Join bundle “opt4”, ppp: [opt4_link0] Link: Matched action ‘bundle “opt4” “”‘, ppp: [opt4_link0] LCP: authorization successful, ppp: [opt4_link0] CHAP: rec’d SUCCESS #158 len: 4, ppp: [opt4_link0] CHAP: sending RESPONSE #158 len: 44, ppp: [opt4_link0] CHAP: Using authname “XXXXXXXX@qwest.net”, ppp: [opt4_link0] CHAP: rec’d CHALLENGE #158 len: 36. What should the WAN settings be set to? If you run this setup against dslreport's speed test, is it any better? a)  Create a VLAN that matches the VLAN ID which CL has preconfigured for you. Thanks for the fast reply! JavaScript is disabled. Going through it without NAT (as a switch) I’m easily able to get 850Mb/s to my network storage system. As part of the installation, they run fiber optic cable into your home which terminates at a Optical … CenturyLink FTTH 1 Gbps service Calix 716GE-I interior ONT pfSense Router x86-64 2.2.4 (Celeron 1037U mini-PC with dual Intel gigabit NICs (em driver in pfSenese)) WAN connection is type IPoE on tagged VLAN 201 LAN is default 192.16.1.1/24 ZyXEL GS1920-24 network switch Prism TV service with HD and DVR via Pace IPH8010 STB After that, the PPPoE connection works again! That’s actually really interesting. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=104282.0, And the related support ticket that may have people ending up not being able to fully utilize their gigabit connection: That created an "em1.201" interface, I then created a new PPPoE config using em1.201 as the interface, using my known-good CenturyLink PPPoE credentials, I then assigned that PPPoE connection "PPPOE0(em.201)" as my WAN interface. I made a little write up on configuring CenturyLink Fiber with pfSense, getting IPv6 working with 6rd (CenturyLink does not offer DHCPv6) and then configuring pfSense + Pi-Hole with both IPv4 and IPv6. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4821. A user on the forums reported to me that it’s because of the PPPoE requirement and the way PFSense behaves when going through PPPoE. A lot of bug reports related to gigabit speeds driver card i recently a... 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