ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?

ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
a week ago

  @jzchen I messed around with it this morning before kicking of my day. Having the complete opposite results as you with the Deco x55 Pro. Rebooted once, it retained WAN addresses, rebooted a second time, pulled LAN address, rebooted two more times, kept WAN, yanked power from Deco x55 Pro, still kept LAN. Changed out the CAT6 cable, retained LAN. Went into Deco x55 Pro Internet Connection option and changed to PPPOE and Saved, and then back to Dynamic, then got the WAN address.

 

Never touched the BGW320. I might put a dumb switch between the Deco and the BGW320.

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Saturday

  @JDThreeee 

 

OK, I unplugged my Deco, plugged in a spare Windows 11 24H2 Laptop I have with a different ethernet cable directly to the BGW320 (passthrough is set to DHCPS-dynamic and that is only thing connected - WiFi is disabled). Initially it got the WAN address (107.) as expected, I rebooted, IPConfig /release - /renew a couple times, kept WAN address. I then disabled the NIC by simply right-clicking on "Ethernet 2" and selecting "Disable" and the re-enabling by right-clicking and choosing "Enable", second time I did this, I recieved a local LAN address. Did it again and recieved the WAN address.

 

So it appears this is a problem with the BGW320 and not TP-Link given my Windows laptop is doing exactly the samething

 

 

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday

  @SteveMat @JDThreeee 

 

Have either of you tried setting on the Deco app: Internet Connection > Internet Connection Type : Statis IP then using the WAN IP address there with everything else set to the same as on BGW? Doing this gives WAN on Deco and on BGW it recognizes the WAN for the Deco, this is despite having the IP Passthrough MAC Address set to what is on the Deco itself vs the BGW recognizing it MAC +1. 

 

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday

  @SteveMat  @JDThreeee 

 

Made another change. On the same settings in the Deco, I did change the DNS to google DNS. Way better speeds. 

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday

  @Ocvl Thought about doing that but really didn't want to have to deal with AT&T changing the WAN IP Address, though not sure how often they do that.

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday
Yes, I have set DNS to Google's DNS Server for Primary and Cloud Flare for backup. This only affects looking up a website not doing the actual data transfer.
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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday

  @SteveMat  The DHCP lease is for 1 Day/24 hrs, if I'm not mistaken....

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday
The LAN side it defaults to 24 hours, WAN side is unknown but that really does not dictate if the IP Address changes. ATT could change it at any point and if set to static, would have to manually change.
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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday

  @SteveMat Thank you for clarifying.  So it's not safe to say if they are providing 24 hr local DHCP lease that the WAN side can't be shorter?  I honestly thought that was the lease from the AT&T WAN side, because it is not configurable.  I changed the LAN side from one hour to match....  Hmmm.  All confused now...

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Re:ATT Fiber BGW320 - Has anyone truly been able to get IP Passthrough to work?
Wednesday - last edited Wednesday

Back from checking the BGW320(-500) configuration pages they have removed the WAN side DHCP info.  Only thing left is the LAN DHCP settings.  I do recall changing this to 1 Day, but I forgot what it was originally set to, maybe 10 minutes....

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