New PPPOE connection

[kaneelschep]

Hi all!


We recently got a new home internet provider. So we went from a simple dhcp on WAN. To a PPPOE connection.
I followed this tutorial: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/pppoe_isp_setup.html
But we have no VLAN, and the tutorial is a bit focussed on it. So I was a bit confused. Everything works fine. No problem. Speed is very close to promised and no heavy cpu draw. i3-7100.

But I am just wondering if this is the way it should be set up, with the new interface;ONE next to WAN and LAN.
Or if I should have just assigned WAN to the new PPPOE device.
Cause I had to change my port forwards to point to ONE as well now.

Thanks!

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You should just assign WAN to the new PPPoE interface and all your port forwards would move with that.

[kaneelschep]

Thanks for the confirmation. I assigned it to WAN and deleted the extra interface. At first it didnt work. Internet would not start.
I put it back to how it did work with the extra interface. Then I noticed the new interface was disabled by default. Only after manually enabling it internet would work.
So I tried again assigning it to WAN and deleting the extra created interface. And then disabling / re-enabling WAN. After that the pppoe worked like normal on WAN.

Thanks!

[kaneelschep]

Just one more thing to add.
So I already changed some port forwards to the new interface I made for the pppoe connection. Which also worked fine.

But after deleting the new interface and pointing the pppoe to WAN, I noticed those port forwards where pointing to nothing.
I thought changing them back to WAN and WAN address would be enough. But they still didnt work.
Then I noticed the rules for those port forwards I changed, where also gone.
I didnt immediately see a way to quickly make a new rule for them. So I just cloned those port forwards and deleted the original ones.
This automatically made new rules.

Thanks!