Nokia G-140W-F bridge mode?

[Dark_Nate]

@Rehan Kumar That's TR-069. Nothing was enabled on "their end" for bridge mode to work. They likely disabled the functionality and re-enabled it via TR-069.

Which is a good thing from a business perspective? At least they are following standards. Unlike Jio Fiber.

 

[rajil.s]

@Rehan Kumar Can you post screen shots of your Wan settings.

 

[rajil.s]

Kudos to @Rehan Kumar for showing me his Nokia router settings over a remote connection. It is indeed doing a bridge mode.
His settings were:

In Network> Lan
1. Disable 'All ports to Bridge Mode'
2. Enable Bridge mode for 'Port 4' while leaving rest on 'Route mode'

In Network>Wan
1. Change Connection type to IPOe
2. Enable NAT
3. Service: Tr069/Internet
4. Enable VLAN ID and set it to 100
5 VLAN PRI is 0
6. WAN IP Mode is DHCP.

I suspect the Network>WAN setting dont mean much, since only Ports 1-3 are put in routed mode. It is the Port 4 which is being bridged.

 

[kgru]

@rajil.s Can you please help me on the above setup, I have Nokia ONT and an Asus Router, do I have to change any config in router end! Is Bridge setup working on Nokia ONT.

 

[rajil.s]

@kgru Apparently, you will need Airtel's help to put your router in bridge mode. The setting i posted above are from @Rehan Kumar who was able to get bridge mode working.

My personal opinion is to throw-away this Nokia router and get a Huawei router instead which offers native bridge functionality.

 

[rajil.s]

Somebody on another forum has posted the following instructions to bridge the Nokia router. Can somebody try this out?

0. Login to the web interface of the Airtel's Nokia ONT device
1. Backup your configuration by navigating to Maintenance-->Backup and Restore-->Export Config File;
    a. This will be useful in case you mess up stuff in your configuration and want to restore things back.
2. Navigate to "Network-->WAN"; delete "?_TR069_INTERNET_R_VID_100" entry.
3. Navigate to "Network-->LAN"; Setup one of the LAN ports to "Bridge Mode"; you can configure all of them to "Bridge Mode" as well - your choice. However, the LAN port you set to "Bridge Mode" should be the port you want to connect your downstream home router (where you run the PPPoE authentication).
4. Configure your downstream home router with the ISP's PPPoE username and password.
5. Airtel's Nokia modem bridges the PPPoE packets from the PON interface to the selected Ethernet LAN port on "VLAN 100" (yes, that's correct; I figured this out the hard way - it doesn't strip off the vlan headers before bridging it to the LAN port; neither does it support any option to strip the VLAN headers before bridging). So you you need to configure your downstream home router's port on VLAN 100. If your home router does not support VLANs then, BUMMER, you cannot use bridge mode! :banghead: (shame on Airtel & Nokia :mad: to have overlooked this important aspect - b'coz a lot of home routers do NOT support VLANs; fortunately mine does, because I use OpenWRT ROM).
6. Configure your downstream home router's WAN port (that connects to the Nokia router) on VLAN 100 (tagged; not untagged)
7. That's it. Your PPPoE authentication should go through and your internet link should be UP and running.

 

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[Srinibee]

Hello,

I had my connection changed from DSL to FTTH and Airtel gave me a Nokia router. The model comes with the following WAN config,

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Under WAN settings I created a new connection with IPOE mode and same VLAN 100,

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Also I changed the port 4 to Bridge mode.

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The router restarts at this point. Port 4 blinks momentarily blinks on bootup but then stops detecting the LAN cable. It seems that the port gets disabled. The Ports 1 and 2 however do remain up when set to bridge mode.

@napsterX The solution in this post doesnt seem to be working for this model.

hi,

were you able to get this issue resolved?

 

[rajil.s]

No I was not. But feel free to give the above instructions a try and report back what you got.

 

[ajkothari13]

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

I was looking for help here, as I did, many times, in the past. Just registered to be able to post.

I have TP-Link Archer AC1200 of my own. Had been using Tata ADSL (my backup connection and BSNL FTTH (main connection) together till today.
BSNL came with a lousy GPON ONT but it worked because I was using PPPOE on my Archer router.

After disconnecting Tata I thought of making BSNL the backup and got Airtel installed today as my main connection.

Until now, I had no idea that Nokia G-140W-F won't have WAN Bridge setting. But solution (with help from this forum) was easy and was discovered immediately after I asked for technician visit

This is what worked:
goto : 192.168.1.1 and sign in ID - admin Pass- admin
goto: Network --> LAN Port 4 --> Bridge Mode
Save (which should reboot the nokia router, if i remember correctly)

Now, from Lan 4 port of nokia connect ethernet cable to your personal router and boot up that router. Connect your device to your personal router. Visit your personal router's IP. (change IP to 192.168.0.1 , if needed, on your personal router -- do it before connecting to Nokia)

Depending upon options available in : WAN / Internet tab of personal router's ui -- select "Dynamic IP" and save.

Restart everything if needed (I did not have to) -- and internet should start working.

Hope this helps someone.

(Now I am just praying things remain stable like this.. as I am just a noob who got lucky
(edit: shutdown everything 10mins back and restarted all now. Everything working just fine.)

Hit like or reply if this method helped you (or not)

 

[rajil.s]

@ajkothari13 Where are you feeding your pppoe username/password, on Nokia or TP-Link?