The OUI is assigned to a specific company which then programs it into their network devices so they can be easily identified on a network. The MAC address has two halves the first six are called the OUI ( Organizationally Unique Identifier). The MAC address is 12 alphanumeric characters long and will be either six pairs, or three groups of four. This is what identifies your router from your neighbors router so there is no mix up of data.Įvery router has a WAN (Wide Area Network) port to connect to your ISP (ATT in this case) and usually multiple LAN (Local Area Network) ports for your local network. The way that the DHCP server knows that the router is an ATT router and not, say, and ASUS router is because the connected network port has unique identifier called a MAC address, (Media Access Control address). The reason connecting your router doesn't work is because their server that distributes and manages IP addresses (DHCP server) will only allocate IP addresses to their routers. The Optical Network Terminal (ONT) will take fiber in and have an ethernet port out that then connects to their router.Ĭonnecting your router to this port instead of the ATT router doesn't work, so you are forced to use their router and setup all these configuration hacks to get things to work. I have FiOS not AT&T, but they both use PON (Passive Optical Networking) to get fiber to the home (FTTH), which I worked with years ago. Many (some?) simply give you PPPoE credentials that can be used in equipment that supports plugging fiber directly into the gateway/router (think Ubiquiti's USG).Ĭopy the MAC from the ATT router into your own router and don't use the ATT Router The Long Version NOTE: AT&T is one of the (few?) providers that requires you use AT&T provided equipment as part of authentication with their service. Now, however, AT&T is using an ONT/Router combo that requires you use their router. There is no such thing as a "modem" for fiber in the sense of what you would use for cable.ĪT&T previously used an external ONT that, with the right networking equipment, could be used without the AT&T router but it required you to run software that would perform the PPOoE login by tricking AT&T (see ). I mentioned in another comment that with AT&T fiber you can use passthrough mode to a router, but it still requires using their equipment.įiber requires an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) which turns the information sent over light waves to an electrical signal (think fiber > ethernet adapter). Those are only relevant if you have your own router (from Asus or Netgear for example) in addition to the gateway (modem/router combo) that ATT provides Not sure why people are telling you about double-nat and bridge mode. It can also be done through the server’s OS under some system network settings. This can usually be done from the gateway’s software in Home Network->IP Allocation (find your server, click allocate and then a list of available IPs will show up at the bottom of the screen, after selecting one it should no longer say “DHCP”). You may need to restart the gateway and server.Īlso, make sure you are assigning a static internal IP address to your Plex server. You should be able to identify your server from either the IP address or it’s name (sometimes the name will just be “unknown…”, which is fine too). All you have to do is click on the “return to NAT/gaming” button, then select the Plex service from the drop down menu, then where is says “needed by device” select your server from the drop down menu. I have had ATT fiber for years and the solution should be simple. Please go to the relevant subreddits and support forums, for example: Build help and build shares posts go in their respective megathreads No referral / affiliate links, personal voting / campaigning / funding, or selling posts Welcome to /r/Plex, a subreddit dedicated to Plex, the media server/client solution for enjoying your media! Plex Community Discord Rules Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Tool Tuesday: Build Help: Share Your Build: Submit Troubleshooting Post Files not showing up correctly?
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |