On 08/11/2021 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2021-11-08, Laurence Perkins <lperk...@openeye.net> wrote:
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From: Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 1:26 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter
Only problem was a screw-up over the router - the fibre was terminated at an
RJ45 in my house, but apparently needed a dedicated wan port on the router -
you can't plug it into a standard port - so I was without internet until they
sorted out a new router for me.
The *fibre* was terminated at an *RJ45*? Sounds like somebody
screwed up massively and said you had the wrong router so you
wouldn't think they were idiots. Either that or it wasn't actually
an RJ45 and you needed a router with a fibre port.
The fiber is undoubtedly terminated at an ONT which has an RJ45 jack
which then needs to be connected to what the ISP usually calls "A
Modem". That "modem" is generally a firewall/router and WAP.
The exact Ethernet protocols used on that RJ45 connection to the
"modem" varie. Some do PPPoE, some just need some sort of
authenticating DHCP client, so do other stuff.
Eggsackerley
All I know is the guy who installed it put a box on the wall. He plugged
the fibre in his end, I plug an RJ45 in my end.
And I need a dedicated WAN port on the router as the other end of the
RJ45 cable.
Cheers,
Wol
