Ziggo delivers internet over cable. There is no login and no VLAN number: the modem hands your router an address by DHCP. That makes the configurator part a ten second job. The real work is at the modem, because as long as it keeps routing you are behind two routers.
What the preset fills in
Pick Ziggo from the provider list at the top of the WAN / internet section:
- Type DHCP.
- No VLAN id on the WAN port: the field is cleared.
- The MTU field is cleared.
- A comment
Ziggoon the uplink. - IPv6 is turned on with prefix delegation at a requested length of /56, on your WAN port, with the IPv6 firewall on.
There is nothing more to fill in: DHCP has no credentials. Everything stays editable afterwards.
What you still do yourself
Put the modem in bridge mode. You arrange that with Ziggo, through My Ziggo. After that the modem is only a pass-through and your MikroTik gets the public address. Skip it and internet usually still works, but port forwarding, a VPN into your house and consoles that want an open connection do not. See also Moving off a provider router.
Restart the modem after the swap. A bridged modem hands the public address to the first device it sees, and it holds on to that for a while. If your old router was just connected, the MikroTik gets nothing. Pull the modem's power for a few minutes with the MikroTik already plugged in.
The WAN port. The preset leaves the port that was already set, and otherwise picks your model's default WAN port, usually ether1. That is where the cable from the modem goes.
When the address stays with your old router
If restarting does not help, you can have the WAN port take over the MAC address of your old router. The field is called Clone MAC address and sits with the uplink; it writes /interface ethernet set ether1 mac-address=... into the script. The preset does not fill it in, you do. Use it only when you actually need it, and write it down in the handover, or the next person will be hunting for an hour.
Television
TV is not in the preset, and we do not state here how Ziggo delivers it. If you use the provider's TV receiver, ask whether it may sit behind your own router and what it needs. If it turns out to be multicast over the same connection, turn IPTV on in the WAN section: the router becomes an IGMP proxy, and you turn on IGMP snooping on the bridge. See Recipe: IPTV.
IPv6
The preset asks for a /56 through DHCPv6 prefix delegation on the WAN port. Every LAN and VLAN gets a /64 out of it and the router advertises them. The IPv6 firewall is on, and it should stay on: without NAT, every device in the house would otherwise sit directly on the internet. If you get something other than a /56, change the requested length in the IPv6 section.
A fixed address
The preset only knows the case where your address comes with the connection. If your subscription includes a fixed address or block, set the type to Static IP address and fill in the address, the gateway and your provider's DNS. Ask Ziggo for those details; we do not fill them in because they differ per line.
Checking that it works
/ip dhcp-client printshould readboundon your WAN port./ip address printshows which address you got. If it starts with192.168.or100.64., the modem is still routing and you are behind double NAT./ip route printshows a default route through the modem./ipv6 dhcp-client printshows the prefix,/ipv6 address printthe addresses on your LAN.
What usually goes wrong
- No address after the swap. Power the modem off for a few minutes with your MikroTik already connected.
- A private address on the WAN port. The modem is not in bridge mode yet.
- Port forwarding does nothing. Same cause: two routers in a row. See Port forwarding.
- IPv6 half works. Turn it on deliberately or off deliberately; half on is harder to track down than off.
Never paste the script while you are on Wi-Fi yourself, or through the port that is about to become WAN. Use a cable into a LAN port.
Read on: Provider presets, WAN and internet and Example: replacing the provider's router.