Pppoe protocol (and interface) missing on switch Zyxel GS1900-24E

[NilsRo]

Hi,

I installed OpenWRT on a switch to use it as a full featured router. It is located directly beside the provider modem in the technic room. I know the switch has not that much power with 500Mhz but I like to try if it is powerful enough for NAT.

In interface dialog no WAN (pppoe-wan) was configured like with my Netgear R7800 routers so I tried to set it up. I installed all pppoe packages but it does not show up in the protocol dropdown. Any ideas how to fully enable pppoe on my pimped switch?

Cheers,
Nils

[d687r02j8g]

do you have ppp installed?

The wiki says

WAN interface protocols

Protocol "pppoe" (PPP over Ethernet)
:!: The packages ppp, kmod-pppoe and ppp-mod-pppoe must be installed to use PPPoE.

Also did you reboot after installing the packages?

[slh]

It's still a switch, not a router. Even if OpenWrt could use it as such, the hardware isn't capable to do it at reasonable speeds.

[andyboeh]

You would have saved yourself some time if you had searched through this forum first. There are several threads that mention that the max is around 20MBit/s when misusing the switch as a NAT router.

[NilsRo]

I looked for it but did not find any absolut value. Many people posting 1Gbit fiber is fast...but 20Mbit is slow also from my point of view with 50Mbit. Lost 2 hours only...

So for standard switching things I like to revert to the Zyxel firmware, does anybody perhaps knows if it is uncritically to simply upload the OEM firmware?

Cheers,
Nils

PS: @d687r02j8g Installed all as visible in the screenshot. But with 20Mbit I will revert to OEM firmware.