ISP gave me 3 ppoe accounts for 3 dedicated IPs, what kind of router do I need?

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I made an optic fiber ISP contract that included 1 dedicated IP addresses and 2 additional dedicated IP addresses, now when they gave me the 3 IPs I see I have actually 3 different ppoe accounts.

Is there a reliably gigabit wired router that can have multiple ppoe accounts ? Or is there a certain protocol name that I should look for ?

ISP provided this fiber optic router/device "Fiberhome AN5506-02-FG" and they said to bridge from that for the additional PPOE accounts. But I want a cleaner solution and I wonder if this single device could work: "MikroTik RB2011UiAS-IN", not sure if the fiber connection on the MikroTik does the same thing as my current device, but it should support 3 ppoe accounts.

What bandwidth will you have there? If more than 300mbps simplex, then rb2011 CPU may be too weak AFAIR. — Michal Sokolowski, May 01 '18 at 00:00
I didn't notice the comment, the bandwidth is `1000 Mbps / 500 Mbps` down/up. — adrianTNT, Jan 14 '19 at 11:03
Then the CPU of the rb2011 will be your bottleneck of your total capable bandwidth till ~330-350 [mbps], simplex. I mean ie. routing or software switching. — Michal Sokolowski, Jan 16 '19 at 20:23

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '18 at 08:50

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From what I can find, the router you have seems to be based on GPON Fiber.

Apparently Mikrotik do a GPON SFP module that will work in any of their routers that has an SPF port. https://mikrotik.com/product/SFPONU

It's very strange to be given 3 PPPoE accounts for additional IP addresses though, and I'm not 100% certain how you'll configure the router to make use of them. (Creating the 3 PPPoE client interfaces will be easy, I'm just not sure about the routing side)

answered Apr 24 '18 at 08:50

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@Matt, It'll work, with source based policy routing. – Michal Sokolowski Apr 30 '18 at 23:57
Well, it works by mounting a switch from their GPON modem (to multiply the ethernet ports) and then I can connect 3 different computers and I can configure the PPOE accounts on the computers individually. It's not bad but it was cleaner with a router that makes the PPOE connections and keeps them on. – adrianTNT Jan 14 '19 at 11:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '18 at 18:07

Consider the Ubiquiti's Edgerouter series for multiple pppoe.

Configurations you may be interested in are on Ubiquiti's community support site and reddit.

The Ubiquiti support community is robust and quick to respond. Products are a good value; I get Gb throughput, even on my $49 low-end model. I'm not a paid endorser, just a small business IT provider who's had good experiences with Ubiquiti.

Zac67 · Answer 3 · 2019-01-14T15:54:23.273

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Since product recommendations are explicitly off-topic here as well as on most SE sites, I understand your question as "What kind of router do I need?"

Any professional-grade router should be able to establish and maintain several WAN sessions. When checking out a potential purchase you should have a plan on how you want to split your traffic/sessions across the links. A static split by source IP addresses, services, protocols, ... is usually easier to do. A dynamic, load-dependent balancing is usually harder to do.

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answered Apr 24 '18 at 11:30

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Thanks, I edited the question to `what *kind* of router`. – adrianTNT Jan 14 '19 at 11:10

ISP gave me 3 ppoe accounts for 3 dedicated IPs, what kind of router do I need?

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