So I got the route 10 to test and have been testing it on and off but decided to do full prod the past few days. Wanted to say that the route 10 does indeed work properly if your using the AT&T fiber bypass ont stick but also because of how the route 10 separated the SFP ports enough I can also fit my 3d printed fan mount that cools the stick on top of it and still use the other sfp port for 10gb to my 10gb switch. The reason I state this is because previously I was running this stick as a vlan on my 10gb switch and it blocks 1 of my 2 sfp ports if I have the cooling fan mounted. If anyone is looking at the Route 10 to use with the bypass it does indeed work but make sure you clone the MAC of your BGW gateway so it comes up immediately.
I’m still working through other oddities like how it doesn’t show the IP’s of the devices unless those devices reconnect. Now to just hope PBR and wireguard client comes quickly.
There is an ont on an sfp you can buy that will basically allow you to get rid of att’s crap gateway bypassing it all and allowing much greater flexibility due to them not allowing true passthrough. It works extremely well for me and I’ve used it since I got att fiber without issue. There is always a chance att nixes it but I’ll ride the wave for as long as I can. If you want to learn more. Also if you do want to do this join the discord as they have group buys all the time for a tidy discount. Plus it’s not guaranteed but depending who is running the group buy they will preflssh the sticks before they send them out to the buyers so all you have to do is a quick configuration and you are done. Can also do it all yourself if you prefer but I really liked the option of them doing it since they know how to fix it as well if something goes wrong.
Yes sir! I am familiar with this approach and wanted to make sure I understood your post. It’s a programmable module designed to spoof and perform any authoritative handshakes to ATT’s network. I had closely followed this approach a few years ago when I was running a TiK router. The problem was that it was sporadic as to when modules would fall off the network. It could be 14-30 days, 6 months, etc. Then there was an effort to figure out exactly went wrong along with time to resolve which meant you were down for some time unless you plugged back into the BGW. My guess is that the pluggable fell off as certain segments of their networks were upgraded and converted to XG/XGS.
I’ve got AT&T service, the BGW320-500, and the Azores WAS-110. It came with 2.7.0 community firmware, I believe. Is there any point to updating the firmware (I think 2.8.2 is out) before I attempt the bypass?
I was running 2.51 till yesterday I upgraded to the highest which I think was 2.81. So it doesn’t seem to matter for us. I think your version supports vlans which might be helpful but should be good to go.