Cannot get a PPPoE connection to work with BT (UK)

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Hi all :slight_smile:

Please can someone help me, I have spent 5 hours today and I still cannot get my Mikrotik to work on a Draytek 130 modem to a BT isp.

I have a Mikrotik router already setup there that works perfectly on the draytek, and I everytime I plug the draytek into a new Mikrotik router to setup, nothing :frowning:

I am on my 5th Mikrotik router purchased as to avoid the ’ your mikrotik router is faulty ’

I have tried copying the settings from the working mikrotik to each one step by step but nothing at all on getting an internet connection. Here is what I do using Winbox

Adding PPPoE –
First I check DHCP client and remove any DHCP settings for ether 1.
Interfaces – click plus (+) button – add PPPoE Client.
On General tab, change name and select interface going out to modem.
On Dial Out tab, add User and Password for ISP (my BT login details that is in the working mikrotik), click use Peer DNS and Dial on Demand and click OK.
Once I have set up the PPPoE client, go to Firewall and then the NAT tab. Click the masquerade setting and remove the ‘Out Interface List’ WAN setting. Add in ‘Out Interface’ above and change to ‘all PPP’.

Changing Router IP range -
IP - DHCP Server - Networks Tab then amend the details to the required network details.
Then go to: IP - Addresses and change the IP on the bridge IP to the required number.
Next, change the range to the desired range in IP - Pools for DHCP pool.

IP > DNS, I add in 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 then click apply, and I get the two grey boxes with Mikrotik ip addresses I think, the 8 and 4 IP addresses stay in editable boxes above

Then nothing, what part am I missing to do??

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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I have just have had to setup my DSL modem router so here goes.

  1. Is the draytech in bridge mode or are you using a double nat setup?
  2. I think you are complicating the setup. For pppoe,
    /interface pppoe-client
    add name=“BT” user=login password=pwd add-default-route=yes
    enable 0
    assuming you have no other interfaces defined.
    I suspect you did not enable the adding of the default route.
    Are you sure you have to dial-in?

Pranav

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I have found my error !

  • Connected using winbox as the mac address
  • Set the PPPoE up
  • Changed the 192.168.88.1 to 192.168.1.1

This is where I had no internet access! Reason being I did this:

  • Connected using winbox as the mac address
  • Set the PPPoE up

Then it worked fine! As when I had changed the IP range to 192.168.1.xxx with router to 192.168.1.1
My laptop network card was staying at 192.168.88.10 for example. I rebooted laptop so it got a 192.168.1.xx address and it worked!

Hurrah!!

In the PPPoE settings, I only need to have CHAP ticked the other three unticked, What is CHAP?

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CHAP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-Handshake_Authentication_Protocol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authentication_protocols