Dasan H660GM-A Bridge Mode

[HC1337]

Recently Got a new Airtel Fiber Connection and with it came the Dasan H660GM-A. Seems heavily locked with no options to even change the Wifi SSIDs or Passwords. Decided to get it into bridge mode. I wasn't able to Dial PPPoE on my Archer A6 V3 running OpenWRT. And when I saw under WAN connections there were 4 profiles, Namely WAN0(PPPoE), WAN1(Static), WAN2(Dynamic), WAN3(Bridge). With only WAN! being "Activated", sliders are not togglable by the user.

I would like to get some advice here on what I did wrong, I am sure I did put in correct Username and Password while dialing PPPoE and tried it with both VLAN 100 and without VLAN, couldn't get it to work.

Any other ONTs I should try to acquire for bridging my connection?

 

[rizexor]

Its not vlan 100, you need to scan for pppoe packets, there are several threads on this.

in my case it was vlan 971 but displayed vlan 100 in dasan

 

[HC1337]

Any pointers on how I can go about doing it? And should I do any other changes in Dasan ONT?

 

[rizexor]

Idk I did in a external TP-Link ONT, ask in the other thread

 

[MrGordon]

The TP-Link ONT isn't that great. I got the XZ000-G7 and it won't work with my Airtel FTTH even after identifying the right VLAN. I am currently using it with a Huawei ONT, works great.

I also got the Dasan H660GM-A, it is completely locked out. Your options are to get your own ONT which works with Airtel or ask Airtel to enable bridge mode. The folks at [email protected] can be helpful.

 

[rohitks]

1. The router is locked and only NOC team shall be in a position to enable Bridge Mode from their backend systems.
2. I had the same router, I was able to change SSID passwords, may be it's further locked. But you should be able to manage SSID password thru Airtel Thanks app. Just check that way.

 

[HC1337]

Update:
Raised another complaint and a different technician did enable Bridge mode from their backend and now I am able to dial PPPoE without any VLAN ID. Getting both IPv4 and IPv6 (Both being Publicly routable and able to ping from outside).

The previous "technician" as I feared, only disabled the PPPoE Profile on the Dasan ONT and did not enable the Bridge Profile.

Now I will be able to use a better Router and have an ad-free Wi-Fi SSID without having to worry it dropping packets after being active for about a day straight.

 

[HC1337]

Short Review of Dasan H660GM-A

Day 1 went pretty well with them configuring the ONT remotely and setting all the settings from the backend.
Before the ONT firmware got updated I was able to change many settings but after the firmware got updated, most of the settings, even basic ones like Wi-Fi SSID and Password. They added a "Prefix" to all the SSIDs, for example -: Airtel_Home.

The Airtel Thanks app is used to manage the SSIDs, password and monitor connected devices. (Not much to change but the basics are there for a home user to just set and forget).

After being online for about 1 Day and 12 hours the ONT started to lag and the Wi-Fi started dropped packets and giving ping spikes along with having reduced range. Under heavy bandwidth usage the ONT "crashed" and rebooted on its own. I realised this after 10 days that I will not be able to live with this.

Other stuff like Port forwarding and IPv6 were all working and didn't have any problems at all.

Let me know if anyone wants to know more about the connection.