Tried it with wan2 off. Always on is set to on. Not sure what's going on driving me bonkers!

This may or may not help, I could not get my 2860 to connect to TalkTalk, different provider I know but..

Under WAN - Internet Access - disable PPPoE / PPPoA

Click on the MPoA / Static or Dynamic IP tab and enable it, I don't think I changed anything in here just gave it a router name, and made sure it was set yo Dynamic IP.

I had spent ages trying to get it to work, i will screenshot my settings.



Anyone else finding this who uses talktalk tv you need to also goto Applications >> IGMP

Enable IGMP Proxy = Checked and set to [WAN1]
Enable IGMP Snooping = Checked

Otherwise the TV wont work.

Edited by solchain (Mon 25-Jul-16 10:55:51)

Oh and make sure you use the vector3 firmware, I used vector1 and was only getting G.INP at the far end not the near end, although it only increased my upload speed anyway.

Edited by solchain (Mon 25-Jul-16 10:09:53)

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Edited by solchain (Mon 25-Jul-16 14:26:58)

In reply to a post by gah789:

Unfortunately, there are frequent problems with PPPoE compatibility. Try using Vodafone's Sure Signal over PPPoE - it is complete pot luck as to whether it work or not. If you really want to use something other than the SSE Technicolor router, go for something expensive like Cisco or cheap & flexible like Mikrotik or Ubiquiti.

Nothing at Layer 3 (IPv4 and/or IPv6 in this case) and above has any idea whether it is running over PPPoE, PPPoA or another Layer 2 protocol.

Unless I am missing something, the issue with PPPoE is that the 8 byte protocol overhead limits the MTU to 1492 unless RFC 4638 is being used over a jumbo capable network (such as Openreach GEA-FTTC or GEA-FTTP with suitable CPE). This problem is worsened by many firewalls blocking all ICMP, which defeats the standard implementation of PMTUD (but not that in RFC 4821).


I run PPPoE with MTU 1500 (pfSense 2.3.1-RELEASE-p5 with a jumbo capable NIC connected to an HG612), and have not encountered problems with my connection, including with Vodafone Sure Signal. Indeed, I had no problems in the days before I added RFC 4638 support to pfSense, when I was forced to use MTU 1492. That said, I appreciate that my connection is a sample size of one.


If there genuinely are other "frequent problems with PPPoE compatibility" at Layer 3 and above, please describe them so that we can all learn.

I never had a problem with 6 sure signal boxes connected to a router using PPPoE on a BT connection, once I'd replaced the stupid paper-thin ethernet cable supplied in the box and factory-reset the units.