Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card for puter

[Alarig Le Lay]

On Mon 08 Nov 2021 16:48:08 GMT, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-11-08, Laurence Perkins <lperkins@×××××××.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Wol <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
> >>Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 1:26 AM
> >>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> >>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.

And if you want to plug the fiber directly to your router, you’ll have
to make it accept the GPON SFP, which isn’t always easy depending of the
firmware of the NIC.

-- 
Alarig Le Lay