From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B0A3158086 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2021 17:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99A912BC272; Mon, 8 Nov 2021 17:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edrik.securmail.fr (edrik.securmail.fr [45.91.125.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1E482BC021 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2021 17:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: edrik.securmail.fr/6FB16B0D44; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=swordarmor.fr Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 18:58:32 +0100 From: Alarig Le Lay To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card for puter Message-ID: References: <85f60ea4-7042-fbac-3685-f8752d4c22da@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 5d041554-0f0b-4295-956b-f9acad7b4906 X-Archives-Hash: 7a238f4f0f10ef64b79ac7bd63cf07ad On Mon 08 Nov 2021 16:48:08 GMT, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-11-08, Laurence Perkins wrote: > >> > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Wol > >>Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 1:26 AM > >>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >>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