Hello Everyone!
Thank you all for your effort this post has helped me a lot!
I would like to also contribute to this effort in some way.
But in order to do that i need your help first!
can anyone please set the following strings as GPON Passwords:
GC87EA41D
GC87EA2DF
and send me the encrypt_data so i can analyse the connection,
Thank you all.
Hi borjan,
To my knowledge, GPON password should be exactly 10 alphanumeric characters long.
The encrypt_data string is firmware specific. The same password will generate different encrypt strings for various modules.
The password can be easily set by writing to A2h EEPROM table by using I²C programmer.
Hi centaur,
Thank you for the fast and helpful reply.
I did realize this by now but now i am having trouble writing the chip, i am using flashrom and arduino as spi programmer but the write is failing. I cant seem to get to the reason for this
Also the A2h table how can i access it? is it stored on the flash chip? where is it located in the flashdump at what offset.
Did you remove the flash for writing or isolate pin number 8?
We have no public information regarding detailed flash layout or mechanism of accessing it. In the post above I described which SFP pins to use for writing to A2h using i2c-tools.
There is also commercial SFP adapter available called sfptotal but is quite expensive.
Yes i did, i desoldered it completely and soldered wires on it. In the end i did manage to flash it. Now i need to do the i2c-tools from raspberry and see what i can do. I found the adapter but thats a very high price. Also how do you connect to the sfp module for i2c or uart? while it is in a port or removed? do you solder the golden pins?
If possible avoid soldering directly to the golden pins. In EU I got my SFP Molex connectors from digikey. Make yourself adapter for EEPROM programming, optionally second one for connecting UART USB console(not really usefull at this moment)
EEPROM adapter needs 3.3V power source.
Some "Do it yourself" and cheaper SFP breakout boards.
https://shop.sysmocom.de/products/sfp-breakout-board-v1-kit
https://git.osmocom.org/osmo-small-hardware/tree/sfp-breakout
Thank you very much for this valuable information! Now it is my turn, i specialize in binary embedded OS reverse engineering. There is a possibility to embed an ssh backdoor and a script to turn off the firewall in order to ssh via lan interface of the module. Flash must be read, the images extracted and edited then checksum redone and contents re flashed to the chip. I will keep you posted.
Many thanks. Let us know it goes. I can test it on live system and provide feedback if needed.
Hi guys,
Glad to find this topic, I am trying to use this module on Clearfog GT 8K, a ARM SoC with SFP+ cage.
I am running mainline linux (5.4.x) but when inserted in the cage, the link is not detected.
However, ethtool -m eth0 works and I can have info about the module.
Any idea how I can debug this further ? Should I try soldering PIN 6 like suggested ? Or disable autoneg on the interface with fixed 1G (speed is still 10G when inserted) ?
Thanks for your inputs.
Welcome johnk,
Soldering pin 6 to the ground will not hurt anything. The pin should be in a LOW state for proper module detection.
Another thing to consider is the state of the DyingGasp(Rate Select) pin. It appears that pin 7 on FGS202 must be in a HIGH state to complete the booting-up process.
I don't know how Clearfog implemented pin 7, but it's worth taking a closer look.
Please see the results of the minhng99 investigation.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-gpon-sfp-fgs202/42641/47
Linux handles SFP modules via
sfp-bus.c [1]
probes the module's eeprom_id through EEPROM dump and mainly:
Commonly it prints in the syslogs something like
sfp: module Technicolor AFM0002 rev 1.0 sn U7L8C002676 dc 03-12-18
sfp: SC connector, encoding NRZ, nominal bitrate 1.3Gbps +0% -0%
sfp: 1000BaseSX- 1000BaseLX+ 1000BaseCX- 1000BaseT- 100BaseTLX- 1000BaseFX- BaseBX10- BasePX-
sfp: 10GBaseSR- 10GBaseLR- 10GBaseLRM- 10GBaseER-
sfp: Wavelength 1310nm, fiber lengths:
sfp: 9µm SM : 20000m
sfp: 62.5µm MM OM1: unsupported/unspecified
sfp: 50µm MM OM2: unsupported/unspecified
sfp: 50µm MM OM3: unsupported/unspecified
sfp: 50µm MM OM4: unsupported/unspecified
sfp: Options: txdisable, txfault, los+
sfp: Diagnostics: ddm, intcal, rxpwravg
sfp: SFP module encoding does not support 8b10b nor 64b66b
If that probe fails the module will not work.
performs state machine checks for signal status (asserted / dessarted) for RX_LOS and/or TX_FAULT
may print in the syslog:
sfp: module transmit fault indicated
relating to the signal status of TX_FAULT (tx-fault in hi IRQ), in which case tries to clear (recover) the fault fives times in total, pausing one second between each attempt and if successful (tx-fault in lo IRQ) prints
sfp: module transmit fault recovered
If the five attempts are however exhausted it prints
sfp: module persistently indicates fault, disabling
and as a result there is no WAN connectivity. Signal status detection is only attempted again if the interface is being restarted, else the link will remain a down state.
userland for debugging:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio for modules with GPIO, debugfs enabled and being mountedgpiodetect | gpioinfo from gpiod-toolscat /proc/interrupts | grep sfp could help in debugging effortsdeveloper (R. King) currently looking after SFP.C development at Linux source provided this shell code loop routine to monitor the tx-fault signal state changes reported from the module to the kernel (eth2 being the CPU port facing the SFP cage in this particular node design).
ip li set dev eth2 down; \
ip li set dev eth2 up; \
date; \
while :; do
cat /proc/uptime
while ! grep -A5 'tx-fault.*in hi' /sys/kernel/debug/gpio; do :; done
cat /proc/uptime
while ! grep -A5 'tx-fault.*in lo' /sys/kernel/debug/gpio; do :; done
done
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/phy/sfp-bus.c
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
Wondering whether there is a difference between the (potentially subsided?) module provided by an ISP and one that is procured from independent vendors, or the pin 6 issue being a general violation of the SFP MSA instead?
Could not find a data-sheet for the module that exhibits the pin layout/definition but if indeed violating the SFP MSA it would explain why it does not work since sfp-bus.c and sfp.c adhering to SFP MSA conformity.
Supposedly it is not necessary to fiddle with the hardware but instead correct the respective GPIO line to change the offending pin for compliance. Probably gpioset from gpiod-tools will be useful for that purpose.
Incidently stumbled upon this blog [3] and there is no mentioning of needing to fiddle with the hardware to get the module working a in switch device, though not clear what sort of OS that switch is leveraging.
[3] https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2019-orange-livebox-linux
Hi guys,
Thanks for your valuable answers, this helped me a lot.
I finally got it working after hardcoding phylink to 1000baseX_Full in sfp-bus.c
There is a host up at 192.168.2.1 with ssh port open, however I could not guess any credential to authenticate.
How did you do that? I've tried a lot but not managed to ping any of the 192.168.x.x IP, do you have a GPON line connected to it? Do you access from LAN or WAN/OLT management?
Hi,
Sorry I was wrong, this IP was actually my host 
So.. no I did not find an open port on this device.
@minhng99
I noticed your answer on the subject of MA5671A
Do you think it is possible to create a bootloader for FGS202 that would give us access to the prompt FALCON =>
It would then be sufficient to tape pin10 with tape and change the serial number without soldering.
No... the FGS202 doesn't seem to use Linux unlike the MA5671A which use OpenWRT
There are a lot of SFP modules on sale nowadays that better dissipate heat and are easier to configure. In order to achieve full compatibility you need access to MIB files.
The ITU G.988 specification defines them as follows:
A protocol-independent MIB describes the exchange of information across the OMCI. Clause 8 lists the managed entities and illustrates key relationships between them to implement some of the important features that may be offered by ONUs.
During registration in addition to SN and password, ONT also transmits Vendor id(SCOM), ONT Version(SCOMFGS202v1), Equipment id(FGS202)
#Managed Entity 256(ONU-G)
256 0 SCOM SCOMFGS202v1\0 00000000 0 0 0 0 0 #0
#Managed Entity 257(ONU2-G)
257 0 FGS202\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0 0xa0 0x5345 1 1 64 64 1 128 0 0x007f 0 0 48More in-depth information in the document
https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.988-201711-I/en
For your firmware, it is possible to view MIB after image extraction 0x100000-0x2A0CE7 and endiannes change
user@SFP:~# xxd -e -g4 extracted.bin | xxd -r > reversed.bin
user@SFP:~# strings reversed.bin > reversed.txt
do you know how I can add a GEM multicast to MIB file? I have an Alcatel-Lucent SFP but it doesn't do GEM multicast, I tried various value but without luck