In relation to my previous post on replacing a TalkTalk router with a Cisco 800, the steps below are for doing the same with BT Infinity.
Openreach Modem: Huawei HG612
BT Home Hub 5 – Type B
There is plenty information around on making this change but as I couldn’t find one blog post with all the information, I decided to write one. If you have any questions feel free to comment below.
Unlike TalkTalk fibre, BT Infinity uses PPPoE and therefore requires a Dialer interface, authentication method/credentials and a few other changes for this to work. For the username you can use ‘bthomehub@btbroadband.com’ as I did below and the password can be anything, I used ‘bt’.
controller VDSL 0 interface Ethernet0 no ip address interface Ethernet0.101 encapsulation dot1Q 101 pppoe enable # does not necessarily show when executing 'show run' pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1 interface Dialer0 mtu 1492 ip address negotiated ip access-group OUTSIDE_IN in no ip redirects no ip unreachables no ip proxy-arp ip nat outside ip virtual-reassembly in encapsulation ppp ip tcp adjust-mss 1452 dialer pool 1 dialer-group 1 ppp authentication pap chap ms-chap callin ppp chap hostname bthomehub@btbroadband.com ppp chap password 7 130703 ppp ipcp address accept no cdp enable end ip nat inside source list 1 interface Dialer0 overload ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Dialer0
