How to enable bridge mode on Airtel Xstream Fiber?

Yes i have a way and i am on bridge mode right now in airtel. Airtel has given me a Nokia G2425G-A(ONT+router), i connected my TP-Link archer AX1500 router and nokia(ONT+router) via Ethernet. I used LAN1 in nokia(ONT+router) because its full duplex and connected it to my tp links' WAN port. I turned off nokia's wifi(2.4G and 5G) because i only wanted to use my tp link router's wifi.

In the starting i was using dynamic ip for internet on my tp link router but double nat was getting detected. So i searched online and got to know that i needed to have bridge mode to solve issues like double nat. So i went to nokia's (ONT+Router) router page and in wan settings i set all port to bridge mode, it was previously set to route mode. My internet stopped working because bridge needs to be activated from airtel itself. So i called their customer care from my registered mobile no and you will notice that before it connects to the customer care it will check itself if the connection is working or not, like i said my internet stopped working so it raised a complaint itself and the best part was it didn't give it to the local technician but gave it to the technician who can actually activate your bridge mode.

Airtel sent me a message raising my complaint and gave it to this technician. I got on call with this technician, i told her that i have connected my tp link router with nokia(ONT+router) and now i am having double nat issues and my internet is not working as i set all port to bridge mode in nokia(ONT+router), so please activate bridge on Lan1. First she tried to access my nokia's(ONT+router) router page but she couldn't do anything as everything was locked because i set all port to bridge mode. So she asked me to reset the router. But here's another thing that i have noticed and airtel as well know that resetting these Airtel's provided ONT+Routers( in my case nokia G2425G-A)) can mess these routers up.

I previously had a nokia router and after resetting it, it messed up( i was getting issues in channels, the nokia(ONT+router) wasn't giving right channels to connected devices). So i told the technician that resetting the router might mess up the router and she agreed to me and said," yes i know thats why i don't ask customers to reset it myself" and I requested her to activate bridge again and she said okay dont worry, she will do something and i don't have to reset my Nokia(ONT+router).

She called me after 10-20 mins, said my bridge has been activated and wrote me down my PPPoe Username and Password and asked me to use my internet. One thing to note, when the technician says that your bridge has been activated, please restart your nokia(ONT+router) and your other router. Thank you.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
@tr1k0N4 reset your onu if you feel you did something wrong. I resetted mine and did a fresh start, now I have access to my onu as I am using only port 1 ie Lan1 for bridge and all other ports are free. Nokia onu has dedicated wlan off and on button so I don't have to worry about disabling 2.4g and 5g through the router page as I only want to use my tp links WiFi.I set them off with the button and whenever I want to access my onu router's page, I turn them on from the button. Btw everything is fine in my bridge now, my gaming is great now. You can reset them once no problem but don't try resetting them again and again. And yes DHCP is enabled on my ONU.
 
@lucifer @tr1k0N4 @Hitori_Abhito7 Thanks for the help, it finally worked. I forgot to configure VLAN after entering PPPOE details. But my internet in general was working fine even without configuring VLAN like surfing internet or browsing. I bridged them, i tried to enter them customly too with 100 for internet and 0 as priority and 660 for voip and 4 for priority but it wasn't working. But bridging VLAN worked perfectly.

Screenshot-2023-12-24-154904.png
 
Last edited by a moderator:
@lucifer @tr1k0N4 @Hitori_Abhito7 Just a quick question, does the ip address of your onu changes after enabling bridge mode. I have recently noticed that i am on CGNAT, i didn't check the ip address of onu before requesting for bridge. Another question, does the internet on onu still works after enabling bridge?
 


I have a small query. I have the Nokia G2425G-A ONT from Airtel with TP-Link Deco M4 as my own router. I have bridge mode enabled by Airtel in LAN 4. Is there a way I can access the Nokia WAN Homepage using the mesh network from Deco? There is no option to put secondary IP in Deco.
 
Back