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Just an update. Sorry for long delay I was very ill.

In the end, I hired someone on FIVERR and he talked me through and got it working by taking the modem out of Bridge mode and just using CLASS A private for the internal network and the default Class C private network on the modem. The fiber modems here are not great. They are old and the firmware isn't that easy to figure out and although I can get by in Thai, my ability is not to where I can have a troubleshooting dialog with a technician :-).

Thank you for your time and interest - it was helpful and pointed me in the right direction.

Out of curiousity - is there any particular advantage one way or the other to using bridge mode vs. router mode for the modems? My use cases have no super high bandwidth or latency requirements.

My next step is failover and load balancing. I will look through the tutorila section first.

THanks to both of patient0 and meyergru.

Anthony

Here are the other configs that I pulled from screen shots of the modem GUI (when I connect directly to the modem)

@patient0 / @meyergru - Thank you for your replies.

1. Sincere apologies - Typo on my network diagram. The DHCP was set to  subnet 192.168.1

@patient0 - Your points are well taken. I need to check how the modem is really functioning. Issue is that I am in Thailand and the technicians don't speak much English and I have been unable to figure out how to set up the bridge mode myself. My Thai is very basic but I am going to get them out here to work on it and try to figure out what is going on.

@meyergru - I did look but I did not see that specific guide. I am going through it now. Thank you for that. I will try to implement the VIP solution that you mention. I am also trying to find a manual for it but from Huawei it appears to be locked unless you have an account they recognize as being from a carrier. ANyway ... thank you ... let me try this stuff and I will get back to you

I truly have tried to research this but cannot figure out what the steps are to proceed.

I have a router/modem from the provider that they set into bridge mode.

The vault/OpnSense is in a default configuration except I set the WAN interface to allow private network traffic. But plugged directly into the LAN port on the vault I cannot see anything other than the vault.

Rather than a long text description I have attached a network diagram and a PDF file that has configuration screen shots for the modem and for the OPNSENSE config.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a 2nd PDF file with additional configs from OpnSense but the attachment limit won't let me upload them. I suspect I can in response to a reply