What's my gateway

All this talk of moving gateways, what's mine - or where's mine?

nge001.edi-re1

Gonna take a guess at Edinburgh.

Not that I care much, just interested, not going to worry.

TalkTalk Business Next Generation Edge, Edinburgh. Juniper kit and you're on Routing Engine 2 of 2, the other being re0.

I think.

Makes sense. Or does it...

Our London router is connected to BNG1-IXN-LON-RE0. A previous reconnect was BNG4-THN-LON-RE0. But London either way as expected.

And our far north router is connected to nge001.gla-re0. So Glasgow, and that makes sense.

But the Glasgow router is connected to Edinburgh!

Later I'll see where the Edinburgh router is connecting to. Shall we take bets on Glasgow!

You're confusing two different things.

The NGE devices are TalkTalk Business equipment, the BNGs are on Zen's network. You'll connect to the Zen equipment through the TalkTalk Business equipment if you're provisioned via TTB.

Different routers report different things. The 'broadband gateway' Zyxel kit reports is the last link in the chain, the LNS. Mikrotik for instance reports the first link in the chain, the LAC.

Edited by XGS_Is_On (Mon 23-May-22 08:59:33)

In reply to a post by Woolwich:

Later I'll see where the Edinburgh router is connecting to. Shall we take bets on Glasgow!

Appears to be Manchester. Obviously...

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In reply to a post by Woolwich:

In reply to a post by Woolwich:

Later I'll see where the Edinburgh router is connecting to. Shall we take bets on Glasgow!

Appears to be Manchester. Obviously...

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Did you read my post mentioning the difference between the NGEs and the Zen endpoint / gateway / whatever?

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

Did you read my post mentioning the difference between the NGEs and the Zen endpoint / gateway / whatever?

Aye, I'm just reporting what the router is reporting. Never let the facts get in the way of a good laugh.

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

Different routers report different things. The 'broadband gateway' Zyxel kit reports is the last link in the chain, the LNS. Mikrotik for instance reports the first link in the chain, the LAC.

This is interesting - not something I had considered a possibility before.

In reply to a post by ft247:

In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

Different routers report different things. The 'broadband gateway' Zyxel kit reports is the last link in the chain, the LNS. Mikrotik for instance reports the first link in the chain, the LAC.

This is interesting - not something I had considered a possibility before.

Mikrotik reports them as Access Concentrators. A Zen GEA session might have something like:

BNG3.WH-MAN-RE0

While a Zen over TalkTalk Business session will have something like:

nge001.gla-re0

The BNG is Zen's kit and their naming convention. Broadband Network Gateway, and it's Huawei equipment. The NGE refers to a Juniper router owned by TalkTalk Business.

At least that's how it was last time I checked. Either way for obvious reasons you don't see the TTB device in traceroutes.

So I am now on zen's fttp 900 service.

I get "lo0" and "lag-3,2,1"
I am assuming this is all via london?

thanks