Router

As some of you may know from prior posts, I have a number of external security cameras (and internal) that show up on monitors throughout the house 24/7. To keep things efficient, these camera streams are multicast feeds the monitors subscribe to. Unfortunately, every so often, I need to check the streams on my PC which is in a different VLAN. I was having to access the unicast streams and I wanted to work out getting multicast to work across vlan boundaries in OPNsense. Usually, this would be something IGMP and PIM can handle in my world, but I have no Cisco gear in my network and while pfsense has igmp and pimd, OPNsense lacks pimd, so the research began.

Recently, I posted about swapping to 2G service which would move me from alt-optic gpon to xgs-pon and then allow me to fully bypass the ATT ont and not even use 802.11x configuration. I thought it was pretty detailed, but I was asked about some of the outputs during the setup. Fortunately, I kept the notes in my notepad instance and can expand on things. This is an addendum to the original article here.

I’ve been planning on doing this transition for a bit, but I wanted to get things in place and ensure I had a solid plan before executing. I’ll discuss what I had, my plan, and what I moved to here a bit. If any of you have read my previous post, [AT&T Uverse RG Bypass][1], then you know I am a big fan of bypassing the ATT provided RG to use my own equipment. With my 1000/1000 service, the fiber (alt optic unfortunately) came into the ATT ONT, directly to my router (initially ERL3, later ER4) which then went to my core switch to my access switches. The plan initially began to form because rather than faking the 802.1x on my router, I could instead use my own ONT and fully bypass everything ATT had in my home. Some people can do this with GPON 1G or less service, but in the former bellsouth areas, we had alt optic which uses a 1550nm wavelength rather than 1490nm wavelength, so the GPON bypass wasn’t possible for me. My plan was to get a 2.5G+ capable router with sufficient disk, memory, and cpu to handle routing at whatever speed I went with. I ordered two devices: A GW-R86S-G2, and an N6005/4xi226-V