Static IP address provisioning process

[SpeedxThunder]

@MrGordon did you try old unlock method?

 

[MrGordon]

@SpeedxThunder No, I couldn't. I don't have a windows device. All macs / linux. I will see if I can run it from a Windows VM.

 

[nishantt6969]

airtel has no mac binding.

 

[SpeedxThunder]

Last time I tried on 12A firmware with my archer c6 it worked flawless
Ig 13A has some issue

 

[panks21]

@MrGordon I can confirm, there is no MAC binding. I also have static IP from last two years and in last two days have changed my WAN MAC address four times. Moved from Opnsense to Edgerouter to IPfire (VM) and now to Vyos (VM).
I don't have Mikrotik experience. If you can help me with the Mikrotik CLI, I can boot up CHR VM and test it out for you. Can't use Winbox as no Windows machine at home.
At the same time, please connect your laptop on the Airtel ONT bridge interface and put static IP on laptop with gateway. Hopefully it should work. If it doesn't then issue is on Airtel side

 

[nishantt6969]

Request for router replacement.

 

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[MrGordon]

Thanks @panks21 @SpeedxThunder @nishantt6969!

If there is no MAC binding, then yeah it could be a firmware bug with 13A as @SpeedxThunder mentioned. @panks21 I think it points to some issue on Airtel side (ONT/backend config), as I was able to reproduce the problem on a non-Mikrotik device as well (shared in my earlier post, running OpenWRT).

I've sent another email to [email protected], and got a call from another technician today regarding my complaint and said that he'd be visiting.

@nishantt6969 I have another Huawei HG8120C ONT lying around, I had previously configured it with Airtel and had worked after cloning my ONT serial. I will test the static IP config with that ONT and see if it works.

 

[MrGordon]

And it works just like that! Wonder why I didn't try this sooner.

Fiber --> Huawei HG8120C ONT (with the Airtel ONT serial cloned). Created a bridge WAN profile, and connected cable from Huawei ONT to Mikrotik. It just magically worked with the previous configuration, didn't do anything other than enabling the disabled config entries.

Huawei WAN profile

Huawei status

Route table in Mikrotik

Static IP configured on Mikrotik

So when Airtel guy comes, will show him this and ask to get the ZTE ONT replaced

 

[nishantt6969]

great.

 

[MrGordon]

So I have a follow-up question, when you opt for a static IP address, you get only a static IPv4 address. What about IPv6? Do we get a static IPv6 prefix too?