Hi. This looks to me like a problem/settings with the program you are using to ssh into the Technicolor. Mine is was using terminal on a Mac, are you using putty or something else?

Looks like you ran into the same thing as this guy who says "that the output had a couple lines scrolling above the window, even in full screen."

https://gist.github.com/chriscpritchard/db98167c0a13...

I saw on there some people had success with ps command too but that didn't show much on my box so I would have another look at top.

From the output I see you have the user and password so it might be worth trying that in case your ISP does not need the host-uniq as mine did

Hi there.

I’m in a similar position , moving over from EE (using my own ASUS router with BT open reach modem setup)

Still to be activated but had my modem/router sent today.

Was struggling to even log in to the web interface and found that the access key details wouldn’t work as a password but I had to use in fact the serial number as the password with “admin” as the user.

So I can log in to web interface fine but no matter what I use (putty,kitty) I can’t get it to accept either the admin/SN combo or engineer/access code combo. I can’t use the engineer details to log in to web interface either.

Just wondered if you had any thoughts?


EDIT

Looks like a missed the capitalisation of the last letter 🤪

Can login via ssh but both “top” and “ps” don’t give the same kind of output. Not sure if it makes a difference that it hasn’t been online and set up yet by Trooli?

On a side note with those three bit of info required how did you configure your router to use them?

Cheers

Edited by vwsplity (Tue 15-Feb-22 21:41:15)

Hmmm, sounds like you're trying the right things. So you know the ip address of the router right? It's usually 192.168.1.1 by default but you need to check this. On an iphone if you have one go to wifi and select your network and then you should see it under router

So then in a terminal (putty)
ssh [email protected]

It will ask you for password. Use the "Access Key" at this point. (SN is used for the web interface)

My access token

Could you let me know if this works? Or screenshots or something if it doesn't

Hi yeah (edit above)

I had the wrong last letter on the access PW.

Can ssh to router via engineer and also web interface via engineer

So my other question is now I can log in via ssh, I have used “top” and “ps”
But the output doesn’t return any of the user or pw details I’m wondering if it’s not been online and set up yet?

Top command is used to show the Linux processes. It provides a dynamic real-time view of the running system. If your Technicolour has not attempted to create a PPPoE connection there will be nothing to see.

Reboot the router with it connected as you normally would and you should see these showing up after it's successfully connected.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Be interested to know if you can ditch their router.

Most folks appear to resort to keeping the supplied router and running their own kit downstream. This indicates it’s locked down and/or Trooli won’t release the connection credentials / authentication method.

I suppose if you were desperate you could packet sniff the connection between the ONT and router.

Wow, I hope Zzoomm is a bit more open than that, if i go for them, I would no doubt keep the routers they have supplied, but I would still like to know the settings just in case I want to change it

Hey vwsplity,

I have been using Trooli for over a year with my own router in the same way as described using a USG. There are not many routers that will allow you to edit the host-uniq value which is also required. Back when they where using Cisco ASRs this was not an issue as it was ignored but now its enforced.

Trooli also (i don't know if they still do) send out "defaulted" routers. Once they are connected to a Trooli service, they will auto provision and download there config. You should then see the details.

Just waiting for Mikrotik to include host-uniq (requested as a feature) then i can ditch the USG as well and just have my Mikrotik doing PPPoE and the L2TP tunnel back to who i work for

Hope this helps.

I've been looking for the same and it seems like Microtik have implemented this now. I've been on some forums but to date people confirm they can set but have not tested as their ISP does not use host-uniq

Release notes include

- pppoe - added option to configure "host-uniq" parameter;

Which apparently you set using

Text
1	/interface/pppoe-client/set [ find ] host-uniq="<required string>"

MikroTik-RouterOS-MMIPS-Firmware-7-2-RC-1-Testing

You have to set via CLI which I don't mind. I'm going to buy an RB5009 and try it out. Worst case scenario I have to continue using the USG until they sort out a fix. Perhaps you'd be willing to be guinea pig to see if it works

Forum where it's being discussed (amongst other things:
Mikrotik-Forum

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Feb-22 19:53:12)

Well that’s good to hear it really is.

So hopefully once its up and running I’ll be able to grab the details with ease.

My ASUS RT-AC86U with merlin software does indeed seem to have the option to enter the host details -“ Host-Unia (Hexadecimal)“ is the setting I’m presuming , just never had cause to use that before with EE fibre and the BT open reach modem.

Edited by vwsplity (Wed 16-Feb-22 19:57:28)

Good spot. Appears it was introduced in v7.2rc1 in the “testing” channel. They’re now up to 7.2rc3 as of end of January.

The “stable” release channel is still at v7.1.2

I’m still on 6..hanging on for as long as possible 😂