How to HACK your ISP router - step by step.

Thank you Anni for supporting the channel by lending me the ROG Zephyrus 16 laptop! 🙌

Chapters:
0:00 Hacking went viral!
0:41 What is hacking?
2:26 The setup
4:18 Investigation
7:19 Network traffic analysis
10:59 Uploading the serial number

[f.t.]

Nice Video! Its a bit ironic, that we in Germany has a "Free Router Choice" per law. So the ISP has to allow to use our own router. Best law in Germany for an Networkadmin! :)

[Bongo.]

Amazing work! @8:39 you mask your serial, but the hex is still in the left - unmasked to 383A - and later on the full packet you replay with ncat.

[xephael]

If its customer provided equipment you own... feel free to hack it! Watch out hacking against equipment that belongs to a telco though. It can be a felony or crime to even attempt hacking on communication provider routers

[sandordugalin]

ISPs in North America: "Wait, that's illegal!"

[patrickjeromeobaldo]

Please don't ever cut out the parts where you make mistakes in speaking. The video sounds more casual and natural. Love your videos, keep them coming!

[TenForceFalls]

Here in the US, I somehow convinced my local ISP to give me a sfp+ module. They are a small provider that only serves one city. Nevertheless I was getting close to doing this with the crappy ont units driving me crazy. They are the one isp I can say nice things about because they pick up the phone and don’t immediately blame me when something is wrong. Here’s to having more local ISPs and not huge companies running the internet.

[tompointdll]

You got an easy one to bypass, in France, bypassing ISP's boxes is not that easy 😋 but it's a great educational video 👍

[pahnazd]

The latter kind of comments you mentioned at the start of the video... it's always great to disprove them with a video proving them that you're right and they were wrong.
Vindication, hell yeah.

[riekstc]

As a former ISP technician for 5+ years I must say, good job.
In my country if you know "how to ask" (at least mainly correct terminology which shows them that you are not a complete tool and actually know what you want) ISP will let you (providing needed parameters) and in some cases if needed even help you set up your own device.

[bigpod]

great video might use this as a basis for mine, but more congratz for having what could be called sponsor even if its just for one video :), i wish i will get to that level one day but i have a long way to go with my crappy 360 subs.

also fun fact hacking has multiple meaning and one of them mostly used in IT is someone who achieves their goals in non standard way. there is also the phrase Hack something together which means to finding quick workaround or solution that isnt standard.

[worldhello]

The AVN Fritzbox is actually a great device. The only downsides AFAIK, it is proprietary and you don't control it.
@2:00 That depends on what you want to hack and how experienced you are.
@2:38 It is not just a router. It is an "internet box". Everything you might need is stuffed in a box. There is a switch, a DSL modem, a WLAN module, etc.
@12:19 The "minus" is a flag, not an operator, my dude. 😉

[Strimblaster]

Great video.
Unfortunately there's no SFP in the ISP Routers in Portugal.
For some years now not even ONTs. Its fiber directly to the router and you get only copper twisted pair out.

[Lazllb]

My isp forces me to use their ONT but it's configured like a bridge to Ethernet in my house. The good thing is that it works well and doesn't interfere but I keep asking about higher speeds or adding a second line. Their own ONT even has a second port they could just provision since it's not being used for IPTV or anything. But the customer support is overseas and aren't very helpful. There was one guy named Cederich on the online support, very cool guy because I ran into him twice in one week 😂.

the good news is another company has installed their own lines in our neighborhood recently and are just waiting on the city to approve the rest of the permits. Hopefully soon there'll be more competition here in my neighborhood.

[florianhb]

Great video for all networking enthusiasts. I myself am very satisfied with my Fritzbox for home usage (it is a very current model). Nevertheless, I was able to learn something because I now know that the Fritzbox is able to capture network traffic 🙌
I just love content like this

[toumpanis]

I have just bought the ONT LXT-010H-D ONT from Poland, it shipped really fast here in Greece. I read the content of my ISP's ONT and with telnet (Putty client) pasted the serials etc from my ISP's ONT to the Leox ONT and this is how I use my own mini-pc with intel N100 cpu and 4x2.5gbps ports and pfsense as a router

[tkteun]

I'm all for using your own equipment, but this is the GPON equivalent of finding your PPPoE/SIP credentials and VPI/VCI. At least on the Fritzbox you can disable TR.069 manually. Unfortunately your ISP chose to use the router instead of the ONU to authenticate you on their network otherwise you probably wouldn't have noticed. Although I don't think they went above and beyond, they're probably very lazy and scan the big barcode on the box they send you. Cool addition to be able to run it in a switch, most SFP programming I've seen was directly connected to a CPU, definitely not DHCP. Nice to see you succeeded, hacking can be very frustrating ;)

[donaldlove]

Excellent video, Tomaz! Not too long, precise, easy to understand. I really enjoyed it. Cheers from USA!

[EpicLPer]

Meanwhile my provider literally sent me a step by step description on how to set the correct VLAN and other settings for pfSense/OPNsense to configure it...

[nickpetrovsky]

The main idea why it is useful: you can have access to ont vlan’s directly in your equipment, usually it reduces devices and wires in complex setups. Same thing is much more complicated with huawei replacements, which is highly popular in some Eastern Europe regions.

[Lucaat]

My fiber ISP uses AON instead of GPON, I don't know if that makes it different but at the moment I can just use my own SFP module with a transparent "dumb" media converter and just plug that into my router of choice. Nice for now. Rumors were flying they stop this, but has been fine for years. In the beginning you needed to use MAC cloning, but if you request bridge mode, you can remove the isp modem as well for some reason. Now they have the fritz 5530 and no longer offer bridge mode, but it still works with your own equipment out of the box. The ISP modem does have a serial number but for now it seems to be irrelevant. I feel lucky because here in Austria we dont have "router freedom law" like they do in Germany.