[SOLVED] Trouble following PPPoE guides. Did I set it up correctly?

[Cache6242]

Hi

I'm new to OPNsense and kindly ask for some feedback/clarification on my initial setup. I've been trying to setup OPNsense at home following a range of how-to guides for ISPs that uses PPPoE with vlan tagging.

Among the guides I tried are these two
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21207.0
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/pppoe_isp_setup.html

However, I was not able to get any of these working since I've not been able to select PPPoE under IPv4 Configuration type for the vlan interface (WAN_1_FTTH of the first guide) the option is simply not there. Maybe there has been some changes since the guides were made or I did something wrong?

However, I found a comment online that said to use the System -> wizard to setup PPPoE. I did the following which gives internet access

1. Used the wizard to setup PPPoE.
2. Created a vlan under devices -> vlan using the physical WAN port and the ISP provided tag.
3. Changed Interfaces -> Devices -> PPPoE (that was setup by the wizard) to use the vlan interface instead of the physical WAN port

The WAN interface is now configured with PPPoE on IPv4 and None on IPv6. I haven't changed anything else for now.

My question is whether the method I've used is OK, since I've not seen this approach anywhere else? I'm worried about messing up the basic configuration and causing problems down the road. Is there anything else I should change now for this setup?

I'm eager to start playing around with the software, but want to make sure I have a solid base config first.

Thanks!

[dseven]

What you've done sounds fine to me. You could have created the PPPoE device and assigned it as your WAN interface without using the wizard, but either way should be good. The documentation ... well, there's some "room for improvement".

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

Feel free to offer a PR to the docs. I only added the bare minimum there that only explains one simple common setup.

I know there are probably 100 edge cases but if you know what to improve please do. Thank you.

[dseven]

Feel free to offer a PR to the docs. I only added the bare minimum there that only explains one simple common setup.

I know there are probably 100 edge cases but if you know what to improve please do. Thank you.

It (the second link in the original post) seems just wrong (or possibly outdated) to me. It suggests setting the VLAN interface (igc1_vlan7_PPPoE) IPv4 Configuration Type to PPPoE. You can't do that (in contemporary releases, at least) - you have assign the *PPPoE device* (not the VLAN one) to the *WAN* interface, and configure *that* with IPv4 Configuration Type "PPPoE"

As a side note; I find statements like "Create a VLAN interface on the WAN interface." unfortunately confusing, as the term "interface" is a bit overloaded - maybe better to say something like "Create a VLAN on the network device connected to the WAN"

[Cache6242]

Thank you very much for your comments and help!