Hi The Gurus of OpenWrt,
I need your help desperately. I have a Fiber to the Node Internet connection here in Australia.
It is basically a VDSL connection. It authenticates via a protocol IPoE for connection where I do not have to enter any u/n and p/w from my isp and the modem router provided by my ISP connects automatically and assigns me a dynamic IP.

I am using a NETGEAR WNDR3800 running on firmwareOpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05.

I have managed to put my ISP provided modem router into bridge mode and connected to the OpenWRT routers WAN port.
When I go to WAN connection of my OpenWRT, I DO NOT see any IPoE option to create  a connection. The only protocol I have under WAN connection is the following.

Interfaces – WAN
Protocol:
Static Address
DHCP Client
Unmanaged
Dual Stack Lite (RFC6333)
IPv6-in-IPv4 (RFC4213)
IPv6-over-IPv4 (6to4)
IPv6-over-IPv4 (6rd)
AICCU (SIXXS)
DHCPv6 client
Automatic Homenet (HNCP)
PPP
PPtP
PPPoE
PPPoATM
UMTS/GPRS/EV-DO
L2TP

Is it such that OpenWRT does not support IPoE protocol?
Am I missing something?
Do I need to install any additional software to get IPoE protocol?

I have tried to search on the OpenWrt Forum and could not find any specific information on how to do it.
But some users have talked about IPoE connection type in the forums. such as this one: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=63064

So I would like to seek your help on how I can resolve my problem.

Please help.

(Last edited by iamtapu on 5 Jul 2016, 13:32)

Hi,

according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPoE and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc894 I would guess that you should try the default "DHCP Client" protocol. Please let us know whether that worked.

Verify if the VDSL2 provider uses VLAN in the internet connection. If true use dhcp protocol over the VLAN interface.

Thanks. I will give it a try shortly and will let you know.

How do I get those info? Do I need to talk to my VDSL2 Provider or can I provide the information from the modem interface somehow.

Please find the screenshot bellow of my WAN connections.
I am not sure if this will determine if it uses VLAN or not.

Judging from the value "Disabled" in row ptm0.1, column VlanMuxId, I would guess you do not need to add a VLAN tag. But really just try DHCP and report failure/success back and we can take it from there... BTW what kind of modem are you using?

Best Regards
        M.

Hi Guys,
Thanks a lot for your help.
It is working fine now with DHCP on wan.

I did not realize it will be this easy.

I have bridged my ISP modem and then went into OpenWrt and the WAN interface set to DHCP.
It just works from there.

Thanks once again for your help.