Using Vumatel raycore 6 port ONT as a switch

abudabi

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Are there any issue in doing this?

I currently have 2 devices plugged into it with private IPs (as well as the fibre router into port 1)

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unfortunately you cant use the raycore as a switch as the device is 100% managed by vumatel and run on the back of a auto-provisioning system, you are meant to stick your router into port 1 the rest will be disabled.
 
Interesting... "the rest" is enabled and working perfectly for me.
 
Slootvreter said:
Are you able to plug more than one device into your ONT?

I find that I can use any ONE of the ports, not more than one port.
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you are right, only 1 port will be enabled and it's usually locked to a specific isp. The model is very different to Openserve fibre where you can use multiple isps
 
abudabi said:
Interesting... "the rest" is enabled and working perfectly for me.
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All the ports are also enabled on mine (Lights go on on every port I plug something in) The ports that are not configured could possible work like normal switch ports then (I have never tried to use it as one)
So the two devices with private IP's could probably see each other but will have no internet access as that has to go through your router.... or do you have a 2nd cable running from a lan port on your router to another open port on the ONT?
 
irBosOtter said:
All the ports are also enabled on mine (Lights go on on every port I plug something in) The ports that are not configured could possible work like normal switch ports then (I have never tried)
So the two devices with private IP's could probably see each other but will have no internet access as that has to go through your router.... or do you have a 2nd cable running from a lan port on your router to another open port on the ONT?
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Would all the ports be on the same vlan? In which case all your broadcast traffic on your line goes up your fibre as well - not sure that's a good thing?
I wonder if you'd also capture broadcast traffic from the ISP vlan on your local machines as well...
Would be good if it was separate, I am short of switch ports :/
 
Sinbad said:
Would all the ports be on the same vlan? In which case all your broadcast traffic on your line goes up your fibre as well - not sure that's a good thing?
I wonder if you'd also capture broadcast traffic from the ISP vlan on your local machines as well...
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If he says it's working (would love to know if he has internet access on the two with private IP's though) then it must be all in the same vlan, probably default untagged vlan 1 for all the non configured ports. Not sure if they actually change the VLAN on the configured port 1.
Either way, the two with pc's/devices he did plug in there that is "working" can't have internet access that way, unless there is another cable running from the lan port on his router to another open port on the ONT.
But ja, would not recommend using that as another switch at all even if it's working....
 
irBosOtter said:
If he says it's working (would love to know if he has internet access on the two with private IP's though) then it must be all in the same vlan, probably default untagged vlan 1 for all the non configured ports. Not sure if they actually change the VLAN on the configured port 1.
Either way, the two with pc's/devices he did plug in there that is "working" can't have internet access that way, unless there is another cable running from the lan port on his router to another open port on the ONT.
But ja, would not recommend using that as another switch at all even if it's working....
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I'm going to test this today, to see out of interest what's happening on that ONT. Purely for switch port purposes, not for internet access directly.
Either that or it's time for a unifi 16 port :/
 
I had my mikrotik router on port 1, my tenda ac10 router wan interface on port 4, my server on port 6.

Both mikrotik and tenda had internet access.
Server had a private IP address (internet access natted via my mikrotik).
 
cobusv said:
you are right, only 1 port will be enabled and it's usually locked to a specific isp. The model is very different to Openserve fibre where you can use multiple isps
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I can use any of the ports, doesn't have to be port 1, but can only use one at a time.
 
So I sniffed the traffic on one of the other ports and saw all the broadcast traffic for the /23 network that contains my ip.

So no, I won't be using this as an internal switch. Just now my firewall responds to a dhcp request from outside and suddenly there's someone else on my lan.
 
As an aside I wonder what mischief I could get up to with some arp poisoning
 
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