Trashing the Vodafone Station How to replace the Vodafone Station with your very own routerVodafone forces its customers to use their modem/router, the 'Vodafone Station': using any other router is impossible because authentication is being done via a custom PPPoE setup.In the PPPoE packet there is a field named Host-Uniq which is used to separate packets from different PPPoE sessions: Vodafone requires the Station serial number to be put in this field as authentication. Hardware setupA Linux router with root access is needed to replace the Station with. With an xDSL connection a modem with a custom firmware like OpenWrt has to be used, most likely one based on a Lantiq SoC.For a FTTH internet connection then every machine with at least two gigabit ethernet interface and a decent CPU will do it. Software setupPPPD by default puts its PID in the Host-Uniq field, while, as previously mentioned, Vodafone requires the Station serial number in it.PPPD needs to be to set an arbitrary Host-Uniq field, but in decent distributions like Debian or OpenWrt the patch is already included. Configuration Line setupTwo separate WAN interfaces must be configured, for data and voice.
The required setup depends on the connection type, ADSL, VDSL2 or FTTH.With an ADSL connection you should use 10/36 as VPI/VCI for data, and 10/35 for voice, both of them configured with LLC encapsulation.With a VDSL2 or FTTH connection you have to create two tagged VLANs with VID 1036 for data and 1035 for voice. PPPoEOnce the ATM circuits or VLANs are configured, bring two PPPoE interfaces up for data and voice.PPPoE configuration is a bit tricky because the Station serial number needs to be put in the Host-Uniq tag.The serial number is in the form X1234 where X is the Station manufacturer:. D ADB. C/S Sercomm.
W HuaweiConvert it to hex. $ echo -n X1234 xxd -psand pass the argument host-uniq to PPPD to bringup the PPPoE connections.In Debian it can be put globally in /etc/ppp/options or in the providers file in /etc/ppp/peers.In OpenWrt then edit /etc/config/network and in the wan section add hostuniq=. #!/bin/sh ' $PPPIFACE ' = 'pppoe-voice ' && ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 dev pppoe-voice via $PPPLOCALGetting the SIP credentials is difficult but not impossible, you have to query the ACS server to get them. I will flash with OpenWRT my Tplink TD-W8970 only to follow this tutorial.
Thank you!EDIT: no way to configure a VLAN on ptm0 phisical iface. VLAN is available only on 4 port switch.
W8970 cannot run a FTTC directly:-(EDIT2: got the VLAN on the modem iface BUT vdsl binary is bugged:/home/buildbot/slave-local/lantiqxrx200/build/builddir/target-mips34kc+dspuClibc-0.9.33.2/linux-lantiqxrx200/ltq-ptm-vr9/ifxmipsptmvdsl.c:281:ptmhardstartxmit: not in showtimeand no one in The Internet know ho to fix. Hi All,my connection is a Vodafone ADSL and I'm curios to know if on the Ethernet port labelled as WAN on my ADB Vodafone station revolution can be used to connect openwrt to untag the VLAN 1035. I ve tried to do that using openwrt in a VMWARE guest machine with the eth0 bridged on my laptop ethernet card. Checking with wireshark the VLAN broadcast discovery start but there is not any answer coming back (I ve tried to changing the VLAN interface mac address with the vodafone station mac address stamped on the router back.Do you know if that architecture should work?Thanks. Hi guysI have LEDE running on WNDR4700.
I am becoming crazy, I am not able to bypass my Vodafone Station. I have FFTH connection.
Hello: )I am currently living in Italy for a few years and have signed up and installed the Vodafone Station. It's been giving me problems lately, and I cannot seem to find any English speaking websites for help with it, as most sites address the cell phone internet connection issues!Namely, the connection often drops itself and frequently I find it unable to bring up a webpage at all. I think it's an issue with the DNS and would like to change it, but I can't seem to figure out how.If this is not the correct place to find assistance with the Vodafone Station in English, please direct me to where I can get help!