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I run my home network off of a pfSense (2.2.6) box, which is connected via PPPoE to my DSL (in Germany, Alice/O2/Telefonica). My modem is a deconfigured "Alice Modem WLAN 1421", which only provides PPPoE-Passthrough.

My Carrier contacted me to "upgrade" my hardware to a "HomeBox 2". My research suggests that Telefonica migrates my connection to BSA (BitStream / OneSession). I contacted them via chat and they told me that indeed OneSession is their reason and PPPoE (passthrough) will not be available to me any more. This is rather dissatisfactory, because my pfSense box would become another LAN client behind that HomeBox. Also would port forwarding become more difficult, double-NAT and stuff. m(

I don't use VoIP, so "OneSession" is rather useless to me.

1) Is there alternative hardware i can use?

2) May that HomeBox 2 can be somehow configured ... with my pfSense box ...?

Jaek Farce
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Today, my line was finally migrated (switched over to BSA) and i configured the new hardware. Guess what i stumbled upon - the O2 Homebox 6641 (ZyXel VMG7947-B40A-DE01V2F) has PPPoE-Passthrough indeed, and it's enabled by default. Problem solved, yay :3

Someone should teach their chat centre agents ;)

Jaek Farce
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  • can you please report in detail how you accomplished this setting? – Diego 72 Nov 04 '16 at 19:14
  • my homebox 6641 does not provide a setting for PPPoE-Passthrough in the webinterface, and i am not able to get PPPoE with my device (dd-wrt router) working; probably because o2 switched it off... what is your setting on router side? – Diego 72 Nov 04 '16 at 19:23
  • yea, O2 does this remote management thing. My Homebox loaded a new configuration from O2, and I'm stuck with double-NAT for now. – Jaek Farce Dec 04 '16 at 05:28
  • that is what i ended up with too. i did some speedcheck but it didn't affect it that much afterall. only solution would be a standalone VDSL-modem, which would bring in more deterministic behaviour. – Diego 72 Dec 06 '16 at 12:29