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HarryTheHorse
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MikroTik PPPoE to BT Fibre 900 FTTP

Sat May 29, 2021 6:00 pm

I have to confess I find the sheer number of options in MikroTik a challenge, I'm trying to hang on till I learn enough to use them, or at least some of them!

I have Fibre 900 (which is fibre to the premises here in the UK) and problems setting up my MikroTik to replace the Smart Hub2, the provided router. I think I have the right credentials -

User = bthomehub@btbroadband.com

and

Password = BT

The MikroTik has the standard configuration loaded including firwall etc, with little or no changes. Apart from adding the PPPoE client.

I have loaded the IP6 package as I read somewhere this was important.
I have selected 'Peer DNS'

And the interface shows 'Connected' and 'Running' and I can see bits and bobs of data on the graph at the bottom of the page.

I've added Google 8.8.8.8 to my DNS page and I can see the BT DNS servers listed - which makes me think the connection is good... but

If I ping www.google.com or indeed anything else from within the MIkroTik interface it times out.

And there's no internet on anything connected to the lan ports of the MikroTik. My wife is saying 'buy a new router' and I'm looking enviously at my son's Ubiquiti kit.
But I am confident that MikroTik will triumph in the end.

Any suggestions?

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Re: MikroTik PPPoE to BT Fibre 900 FTTP

Mon May 31, 2021 10:27 pm

Solution

First follow the guide here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_DVecSfPE
The web version is here.

https://systemzone.net/mikrotik-configu ... onnection/
I didn't want to remove the default config (because it has the firewall rules in it)  but in the end I couldn't get it work without a blank canvas in the router. So remove the default config! 

Use these credentials.

User = bthomehub@btbroadband.com and Password = BT

 Then apply the firewall rules - I got mine here

http://tksja.com/essential-firewall-rules/
video description here - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jhP62VvwI

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Re: MikroTik PPPoE to BT Fibre 900 FTTP

Mon May 31, 2021 11:46 pm

Random videos and blogs are often outdated, less than optimal, insecure and sometimes just wrong. IPv6 is an optional nice-to-have, it is not required for basic connectivity.

Starting from factory defaults all you should need to do is add a PPPoE client interface and then add that interface to the WAN interface list. I don't use Quickset, but there may be an option with a PPPoE WAN connection in newer firmware versions. Once IPv4 connectivity is set up you can investigate IPv6.

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