Morning, is this still ongoing? Have you logged a fault? Let me see if we can get some information here.
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Good to hear it's stabilised. thanks for the updateMorning! Sorted. Seems like it was an openserve thing.
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Absolutely absurd... Sorry
View Ticket #422372
If I knew I was going to be forced to use CGNAT, I would have moved to a different ISP instead of upgrading a service and giving you more money. Not a happy camper right now. I've had -nothing- bad to say about WebSquad, ever, in the what 8 odd years that I've used you as my ISP.... This, is absurd.
Even *with* the "L2TP tunnel" (which will not give 1Gbps due to overhead), IP now changes on every single reconnect. I've had 1 IP for 8+ years since I've signed up with you.
Even your own IPv6, is now broken and does not work....
View Ticket #422372
If I knew I was going to be forced to use CGNAT, I would have moved to a different ISP instead of upgrading a service and giving you more money. Not a happy camper right now. I've had -nothing- bad to say about WebSquad, ever, in the what 8 odd years that I've used you as my ISP.... This, is absurd.
Even *with* the "L2TP tunnel" (which will not give 1Gbps due to overhead), IP now changes on every single reconnect. I've had 1 IP for 8+ years since I've signed up with you.
Even your own IPv6, is now broken and does not work....
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Howdy, will reach out. First things first, we still allocate public IPs (dynamic or static). There is no reason why you can't have a static IP via the L2TP, which has been tested extensively and runs at 1 Gbps+ without issue. VX has jumbo frame support, so overhead is not an issue. v6 is now native to the L2TP, further simplifying your setup. Alternatively we have a 1:1 NAT option and the 6:4 tunnel which you currently use.
Regarding the need to go L2TP. VX (Vumatel Trenched) reserves and wastes a large segment of public IPs across their 6 or so master nodes in CPT, similar to how Openserve's IPC used to. The DHCP platform is also incredibly rigid, not allowing for concurrent use of different pools - this means inactive pools churn IPs, and an inability to effectively optimise pool usage across nodes. So the issue comes down to sensible allocation of a limited resource, to ensure you still get a public IP, or wasting resources indefinitely while a poorly designed platform struggles to keep up with the realities of open access networks. Native IPv6 has also only been rolled out for 1 ISP, 6 years after it was promised. VX is not the only FNO on our network, but likes to believe it is. The CGNAT allocation via VX is just to establish a L3 underlay path for the L2TP to connect. From there, you're on a public.
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Surely there would be overhead on the L2tp if your router port is only 1Gb - so its 1Gb ethernet into ONT plus L2Tp overhead means you will lose some bandwidth to tunnel? I mean if the layer2 is 10gb (or 2.5) - sure then u can get there.
VX is active ethernet and runs jumbo frame, so your L2TP session establishes at a full 1540 bytes (router supporting), delivering a full 1500 byte payload client side. No issues saturating the line at that speed and the overhead is contained by the larger packet.
PPPOE on a 1500 byte ethernet frame has an 8/20 byte pppoe header, payload 1492/1480 bytes. So in theory, PPPOE has a larger overhead here.
Openserve use something similar on their LNS network, stripping the PPPOE, encapsulating in L2TP and delivering a 1548 byte frame to the ISP. Once the L2TP layer is stripped, we receive the original 1492/1480 PPPOE payload.
So for VX, router supporting, we get a full frame 1500 byte client payload, or worst case 1460 (2.6% header which is incrementally more than a PPPOE).
Would u need to turn jumbo frames on on the router if you are running your own or on the ONT
You would just need to enable this at a router. VX CPE is already jumbo.