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@RMerlin


Hi RMerlin,
I would like to submit the following problem to you:
I live in Italy and I have a Vodafone italian ISP's FTTH internet connection;
as many italian ISPs, Vodafone provides to me a GPON ONT (Huawei) and a VDSL Modem/Router VSR (Vodafone Station Revolution - also made by Huawei) in leasing.
The VSR is connected to the ONT in the following manner: VSR (WAN port) <----> ONT (LAN port) and ONT (GPON port) <---> Fiber cable that enter to my home.
I would like to use my ASUS RT-AC68u router in place of the buggy VSR Vodafone router, but there is one problem: beetween VSR and ONT there is a PPP session with a Vodafone PPP Host-Unique-tag that creates a non standard method to force Vodafone's users to use the VSR only to establish a connection (or, in others words, you normally can't use a router different from the VSR).
Reading around the italian forums, I seen that Vodafone uses a unknown username and the HEX of VSR S/N as password to establish the PPP internet session.
My question is: is it possible to add a code/script (with a mini-guide) to insert the 2 mentioned parameters in the PPPD process/daemon of your modded Asus firmware to use ASUS Router in place of the VSR Vodafone Router?

Here I found a link with some useful code (Sorry, but I am not a programmer): LINK

Thank you in advance!!
Best Regards from Italy! :)
 
@RMerlin


Hi RMerlin,
I would like to submit the following problem to you:
I live in Italy and I have a Vodafone italian ISP's FTTH internet connection;
as many italian ISPs, Vodafone provides to me a GPON ONT (Huawei) and a VDSL Modem/Router VSR (Vodafone Station Revolution - also made by Huawei) in leasing.
The VSR is connected to the ONT in the following manner: VSR (WAN port) <----> ONT (LAN port) and ONT (GPON port) <---> Fiber cable that enter to my home.
I would like to use my ASUS RT-AC68u router in place of the buggy VSR Vodafone router, but there is one problem: beetween VSR and ONT there is a PPP session with a Vodafone PPP Host-Unique-tag that creates a non standard method to force Vodafone's users to use the VSR only to establish a connection (or, in others words, you normally can't use a router different from the VSR).
Reading around the italian forums, I seen that Vodafone uses a unknown username and the HEX of VSR S/N as password to establish the PPP internet session.
My question is: is it possible to add a code/script (with a mini-guide) to insert the 2 mentioned parameters in the PPPD process/daemon of your modded Asus firmware to use ASUS Router in place of the VSR Vodafone Router?

Here I found a link with some useful code (Sorry, but I am not a programmer): LINK

Thank you in advance!!
Best Regards from Italy! :)


GOOD NEWS !!!!

I have just read this note about the changelog below:

ASUS DSL-AC55u - FW: v1.1.2.2_17
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From Changelog:
---------------
Bug fixes and Enhancements:
- Added host-uniq option for ISP Vodafone in Italy.

Is it now possible to import that feature (HOST-UNIQUE for Italian ISP Vodafone) on Merlin FW for RT-AC68u ???
 
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