Hey there!

I am a week or so in and still havent got it working.

I have a DSL contract with Vodafone, while the DSL lines are from Telekom.

Hardware

• Draytek 130 DSL Modem
• Turris MOX Wifi 6 router (openWRT-based)

Trying Bridge Mode

In the OpenWRT LUCI interface I setup a VLAN with Tag 7 on the but no success.

Here is a video of the setup process

I was able to connect at first but only got a "wrong credentials" website by Vodafone. So while a connection was there, it sended wrong credentials.

Assuming maybe the modem had old credentials configured, I reset it and enabled bridge-mode there.

I connected to the modems interface (needs setting a static IP and the docs are wrong!)

    
ip link show
#get name of ethernet connection

ip link set <NAME> down
ip addr flush dev <NAME>
ip addr add 192.168.1.100/24 dev <NAME>
ip link set <DEV> up

xdg-open http://192.168.1.1/

  

I followed the docs and enabled bridge-mode, disabling PPPoE passthrough.

bridge mode

I did the same on bridge mode but got no connection at all. Also no error page, Vodafone told me I has 3 wrong loggins free (so I had one wrong login?)

I went into the modem and disabled bridge mode, using the default PPPoE-Passthrough.

Trying PPPoE passthrough

I went into the modems interface (which is incredibly strange to do) and changed it back to the normal PPPoE passthrough.

The modem then asked me for credentials, I entered the ones I got.

It shows the status as "ready" but WAN1 (I assume the main interface) is not online. A few stats from the modems console:

    
> vdsl status

  ---------------------- ATU-R Info (hw: annex B, f/w: annex A/B/C) -----------
   Running Mode            :      17A       State                : SHOWTIME
   DS Actual Rate          :100106000 bps   US Actual Rate       : 39926000 bps
   DS Attainable Rate      :102244256 bps   US Attainable Rate   : 39954000 bps
   DS Path Mode            :        Fast    US Path Mode         :        Fast
   DS Interleave Depth     :        1       US Interleave Depth  :        1
   NE Current Attenuation  :       13 dB    Cur SNR Margin       :        6  dB
   DS actual PSD           :     3. 5 dB    US actual PSD        :    12. 7  dB
   NE CRC Count            :        0       FE CRC Count         :      107
   NE ES Count             :        0       FE  ES Count         :        6
   Xdsl Reset Times        :        0       Xdsl Link  Times     :        1
   ITU Version[0]          : fe004452       ITU Version[1]       : 41590000
   VDSL Firmware Version   : 05-07-03-03-00-07   [with Vectoring support]
   Power Management Mode   : DSL_G997_PMS_L0
   Test Mode               : DISABLE
  -------------------------------- ATU-C Info ---------------------------------
   Far Current Attenuation :       15 dB    Far SNR Margin       :        9  dB
   CO ITU Version[0]       : b5004244       CO ITU Version[1]    : 434dc278
   DSLAM CHIPSET VENDOR    : < BDCM >

  

    
> wan status

WAN1: Offline, stall=N
 Mode: PPPoE, Up Time=00:00:00
 IP=---, GW IP=---
 TX Packets=965, TX Rate(Bps)=0, RX Packets=0, RX Rate(Bps)=0
 Primary DNS=176.xx.xx.250, Secondary DNS=176.xx.xx.251

  

Resetting the MOX

I want to try to use the modern reForis interface, which doesnt react well if you change defaults in LUCI. So I am currently resetting the router.

Suggestions?

I am thinking about just getting a Vodafone router and putting mine behind that. Double-NAT I dont care, I dont have a server.

It would have just worked in that case 🫠

I may also want a newer modem but the market is not really good, they are often expensive and my 250mbit (download) contract, and the available contracts, dont even reach what that modern Zyxel modem could do.

Any experience? What did you do?