Odido fibre, formerly T-Mobile Thuis, delivers internet by DHCP, but tagged: the WAN port needs VLAN 300. There is no login, no username and no password. That single VLAN number is the whole difference between a router that does nothing and a router that is online.
What the preset fills in
Pick Odido from the provider list at the top of the WAN / internet section:
- Type DHCP.
- VLAN id on the WAN port set to
300. The configurator turns that into a VLAN interface, something likeether1-vlan300, and hangs the DHCP client on it instead of on the bare port. - The MTU field is cleared.
- A comment
Odidoon the uplink. - IPv6 is turned on with prefix delegation at a requested length of /48, on that same VLAN interface, with the IPv6 firewall on.
What you still do yourself
Choose the WAN port. The preset leaves the port that was already set and otherwise takes your model's default WAN port, usually ether1. That is where the cable goes. If you pick a different port later, check that the VLAN number moves with it.
The rest of your network. LAN address, Wi-Fi, VLANs inside the house, firewall and admin password stay yours. The VLAN on the WAN port has nothing to do with the VLANs you use inside your own network. See VLANs.
The box on the wall
With fibre, the fibre lands on a separate box that turns it into ethernet. The cable from there goes to your WAN port. If a provider router is still sitting in between, take it out of the chain or put it in bridge mode, otherwise you are behind two routers and port forwarding and VPN stop working. If you are not sure what is installed at your address or what it does, ask Odido before you start moving cables.
Odido DSL
The preset is for fibre. A DSL line uses different settings, and we do not know them, so we do not fill them in. On DSL, ask Odido whether it is DHCP or PPPoE and which VLAN number belongs to it, and fill the uplink in by hand. If you work it out, tell us through feedback and we can turn it into a preset. How to dig this out is in A provider without a preset.
Television
TV is not in the preset, and we do not claim here how Odido delivers it. If you have the provider's TV receiver, ask whether it may sit behind your own router and whether a separate VLAN belongs to it. If it is multicast over the same connection, turn IPTV on in the WAN section; if it has a VLAN of its own, add a second uplink for it and select that uplink under IPTV. Turn on IGMP snooping on the bridge as well. See Recipe: IPTV.
IPv6
The preset asks for a /48 through DHCPv6 prefix delegation on the uplink's VLAN interface. Your LAN and your VLANs each get a /64 out of it. The requested length is a hint: if you get something else, change it in the IPv6 section. Note that the IPv6 client belongs on the VLAN interface, not on the bare port. The preset gets that right, but if you change the port afterwards, check it.
A fixed address
The preset only knows the case where your address arrives by DHCP. If your subscription includes a fixed address or block, set the type to Static IP address and fill in the address, gateway and DNS. The VLAN number stays where it is. Ask Odido for the details; see also Recipe: fixed addresses.
Checking that it works
/interface vlan printshows a VLAN interface with id 300 on your WAN port./ip dhcp-client printshould readbound, and the client should sit on that VLAN interface./ip address printshows the address you were given./ipv6 dhcp-client printshows the prefix,/ipv6 address printthe addresses on your LAN.
What usually goes wrong
- The DHCP client on the bare port. Without VLAN 300 no address ever arrives. This is the mistake you see most.
- DSL settings on a fibre preset. Or the other way round. They are not interchangeable.
- Double NAT. The provider's router is still in the chain and routing itself.
- TV stays black. Multicast is dropped by the firewall as long as IPTV is off.
Read on: Provider presets, WAN and internet and IPv6.