pfSense & BT Full Fibre Broadband - EASY SET UP 2023 | PPPoE Setup for BT FTTP 900

In this video, I show you how to set up pfSense for use with BT Full Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) Broadband. Plug pfSense directly into your BT ONT (Optical Network Terminal) without the the need to use the modem supplied by BT.

I'll show you how to configure your pfSense WAN interface for use with PPPoE and connect it directly to the BT broadband network, including the usernames and passwords required to connect pfSense to your BT broadband service, whether you're using a home or business broadband service from BT.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:24 BT ONT (Optical Network Terminal)
01:44 Assigning pfSense WAN interface
02:00 Configure PPPoE WAN Connection
04:25 PPPoE Username and Password Credentials
05:20 Setting the Default Gateway

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[mkhanapathan]

Thank you for your efforts to help others.

[RoboNuggie]

A nice & concise guide Sam, thank you!
That's an interesting Malta mug there, all the better to fill with coffee 🙂

[Jinkle]

Thanks fella, I’m just about to setup Opnsense on BT fibre so it’s nice to see it works fine.

[ShootingAndReloading]

On the MMS field, shouldn't you have this set either blank or also 1492? (genuine question)
As I understand it, PFsense should automatically remove 40 bytes from the MTU setting. Setting this to 1452 will actually result in a MSS of 1412 and cost performance.
Also, for "dial on demand", that's not needed. From the manual:
"The default behavior for a PPP link is to immediately connect and immediately attempt to reconnect when a link is lost. This behavior is described as Always On. Dial-on-Demand delays this connection attempt. When set, the firewall waits until a packet attempts to leave the via this interface to make a connection attempt. Once the firewall connects it will not automatically disconnect."

[melissa]

i have a block of 5 static ip's allocated. The hub 2 sees them, it shows the bt gateway etc in the hub2 config. when pfsense connectsit doesnt connect to the same static gateway so assume its not gonna give me the statics. Ive added the 5 stack as virtual ip's but thing I havent got that far yet

Strangly even when its connected it still doesnt give me internet access

[rjy]

Thanks - BT are in the area at the moment laying fibre and I'm keen to ditch the cellular backup WAN for wired so this is good info as I run pfsense.

Next thing to see is if I can l can aggregate two different providers (VM 1Gb and BT 1Gb) or if I can only use one and use the other as fail-over in which case I'll just go for 100Mb from BT.

[mikescott]

Will be putting a pfsense install on a toob connection, think they don't require PPPoE credentials. It will be a CGNAT connection in the first instance as it's for a family member who doesn't need anything hosted or complex.

[grahamstringfellow]

Is this the same if you connect a tp link Wi-Fi router in settings

[nigelholland]

Great video. Thanks. Would the mtu and miss be the same as vodaphone fibre as well please do you know

[Teleport]

Thanks for this. Would it be the same settings (except obviously username and password) for Sky broadband FTTP please? Also what hardware would you recommend to replace the wi-fi of the ISP router?

[ramman]

Have you managed to work out how to add a sip device such as a grand stream to add analog devices to pick up bt digital voice with a corporate lev 3 router and of pfsence in between

[try-that]

Jammy bugger, don't think we've got anything that coming to our exchange. 😒 Nice walk through as well.
Nice to know about pc-engine, as that's what I use at the moment. Got to remember to factor that in to the cost.
Roughly how much is that per month.

[Felix-vehs]

1:03 PPPoE on pfSense (FreeBSD) is single threaded, which is likely the reason why