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General ONU/ONT question for Yayzi/CityFibre :eyes:

It looks like the FS ONT stick can take serial, MAC & password. I’ve not had any joy getting past activation state O3 (ref :link:) so far.

:question: Does anyone know what password I could pass to authenticate with the CityFibre network? :grin: (possibly just serial again?)

[   36.328000] [onu] serial number: **[REDACTED]**
[   36.656000] [onu] password: 0000000000
[   36.836000] [onu] GPHY Firmware loaded into RAM (phy11g.bin)
[   37.052000] [onu] PE[255] firmware loaded v9.90.6.1
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Maybe @T9537 knows as his is working apparently

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Did you give FS the serial or you doing it yourself?

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The device has a serial (on the SFP side) but I’m trying to authenticate on the GPON by taking the details of the back of my Calix ONT box :grin:

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Can you just use a blank password?

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I’m guessing that 0000000000 is the equivalent of blank in this context? I’ll see if I can properly clear it out tomorrow at some point

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If you’re stuck at State 3, that means there is something wrong with the serial - it’s nothing to do with a password.

I didn’t need a password for mine and State 5 indicates a password issue anyway.

To set the serial, run: set_serial_number YOURSERIALHERE
To make sure you’ve set it correctly, run: fw_printenv | grep nSerial

Then do MAC:

uci set network.host.macaddr=OL:TM:AC:HE:RE
uci commit network.host.macaddr=OL:TM:AC:HE:RE

Once done, reboot the stick using “reboot”

You may also need to mimic ONT model information, i can’t remember if i did that with mine or not but lets ensure mac and serial is correct first.

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I’m throwing in the towel. I’ve scoured the internet for every GPON/ONT resource, tried every suggestion & command I could find and I never get past state 3.

nSerial always matches the “Serial” on my Calix ONT but I’m stuck with state 3.

I gave up on the password side of things & threw it back to 0’s. The host MAC matches the back of my ONT too.

Been down the ‘rabbit hole’ of sfp_i2c -i ... settings too but none of those options have impacted things either :see_no_evil:

My final final thought is asking FS for a fresh unit instead of the custom one I went for (thinking it would save me the hours I’ve ended up spending with my faffing :rofl: :sob:) in order to rule out this being a dud unit or some config going a bit wonky somewhere along the line… But I’m not going to hold my breath on that being a solution.

If you’re confident that setting the serial & host MAC is the only config needed then doing it myself with a fresh unit should definitively show if this is possible in my area or not @T9537 :smiley: (The ONT model info seems to only affect the SFP eeprom(?) side of things aka. what model/serial is shown to my Unifi gear as opposed to what’s sent back to the OLT)

On the plus side, it’s been cool to run some fibre through my walls & ceiling :grin: :hammer: Discovering FS has been great and troubleshooting this has been a nice way to learn about what makes GPON tick.

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I will reply back to you, it will just be tomorrow now. However;

State 3 is a serial issue. My only guess is the ONU isn’t recognising the serial or it’s not correct or something. I’m not entirely sure.

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Got some free stuff to burn/recycle this morning

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I’ve reached out to Cityfibre to ask their techs about SFP GPON modules :grin:
Unlikely to get much traction but it never hurts to ask

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I’ve been careful with the wording :wink:

No admission of jamming 3rd party gubbins into their networking and hoping for the best :laughing:

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Do you want my leaflets too?

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I’d be suprised if they gave you any info.

Whereabouts (roughly) do you live?

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West Midlands, somewhere near Birmingham.

Based on both of the Calix ONTs I’ve got I’m definitely in a GPON area (not XGS)

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I don’t think you get an upgraded ONT unless you’re actually on a package requiring it. Though actually, no that wouldn’t make any sense so nevermind.

State 3 is serial related though - it’s nothing to do with password. So something is up with that.

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Yeah, I’ve given it another shot today with the FSAN in place of the serial but no dice.

Did you need to do any conversions to/from HEX/ASCII with your serial or was it just throwing the full alphanumeric in ‘plain text’ from the back of your ONT into set_serial_number xxx?

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Plain text

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No luck yet with CF, I’ve just received this reply but have not been told explicitly not to use a 3rd party device (nor that it’s impossible to do so) :sweat_smile:

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Yayzi can’t support directly (not that I expected them to be allowed to)

So the time has come to return my SFP to FS.com :pensive:

Very strange that the CF network is fussier in the Midlands than it is elsewhere in the UK… I wonder if it’s down to a different combination of equipment in different areas or if @T9537 had to slip a fiver to the CF crew :rofl:

Edit: this thread could probably use a more accurate name now that it’s turned into me sulking about ONTs :laughing::laughing:

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I’m in the midlands so don’t think it’s that. But yeah, i’ve looked everywhere. SN, Mac etc is all that’s required even on VM’s network (See my other post about it now being possible on VM). Maybe it’s something to do with firmware or something, not 100% sure but in your case it’s deffo related to the S/N

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