Necesarry Firmware Update

[moll3r]

Hi there,

I was following this guide, and I ran into the issue where the interface wouldn't allow "PLOAM Password" to be set to null.

As it turns out, this was enough to not be able to retrieve the proper VLAN ID from Verizon.

After a bit of troubleshooting, I found that updating the firmware to M110_sfp_LuLeey_241026.tar was just the fix to set the "PLOAM Password" to null, and retrieve the VLAN. Everything else in the guide works perfectly.

There's a download to this file directly from LuKeey here.

Additionally, as I didn't have a way to connect my PC directly to the card - I was able to program it by creating a new temporary network on the UDM, and setting both my PC and NIC to that VLAN (while also making sure the subnet was 192.168.1.0/24 with the UDM having something other than 192.168.1.1)

Might be worth adding this as an option for those who don't have a way to connect the card to their PC.

Otherwise, great guide and great info! Thanks for sharing!

[esmith443]

https://github.com/esmith443/Verizon-ONT-Bypass/wiki
If you want to type up a wiki for it, I will add it to my guide if you would like

[vicfalc09]

@moll3r did your stick populate Olt Vendor at the bottom of the PON status page? I have same setup as you and I am getting the O5 but no VLAN ID. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

[moll3r]

@moll3r did your stick populate Olt Vendor at the bottom of the PON status page? I have same setup as you and I am getting the O5 but no VLAN ID. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

[moll3r]

https://github.com/esmith443/Verizon-ONT-Bypass/wiki If you want to type up a wiki for it, I will add it to my guide if you would like

I believe wiki might only show as an option for you, I cannot access it. It just redirects me to the main page of the repo.

[vicfalc09]

@moll3r did your stick populate Olt Vendor at the bottom of the PON status page? I have same setup as you and I am getting the O5 but no VLAN ID. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

[moll3r]

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

I was lazy, and SSHed over my raspberry pi that didn’t ask for weird SSH settings. If it let you in, and you ran the command then it doesn’t matter how you got in.

What ONT are you replacing? Nokia 211?

[vicfalc09]

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

I was lazy, and SSHed over my raspberry pi that didn’t ask for weird SSH settings. If it let you in, and you ran the command then it doesn’t matter how you got in.

What ONT are you replacing? Nokia 211?

Alcatel-Lucent I-211M-L

[clarkm]

@moll3r did your stick populate Olt Vendor at the bottom of the PON status page? I have same setup as you and I am getting the O5 but no VLAN ID. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

This command is how I was finally able to ssh in: ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -oPubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -oCiphers=+3des-cbc -oMACs=+hmac-sha1 admin@192.168.1.1

[vicfalc09]

@moll3r did your stick populate Olt Vendor at the bottom of the PON status page? I have same setup as you and I am getting the O5 but no VLAN ID. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

This command is how I was finally able to ssh in: ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -oPubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -oCiphers=+3des-cbc -oMACs=+hmac-sha1 admin@192.168.1.1

Did it work for you?

[clarkm]

Did it work for you?

I was able to update the firmware using the link at the top, fill out my serial like listed in the guide, ssh in using the command I put in my last post, and run flash set OMCI_FAKE_OK 1, then commit and reboot in the web ui.

Right now, I think I have my onu configured correctly, but I won't be able to test it on my Dream Machine SE until this weekend when I can afford to take my network offline.

[clarkm]

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

I was lazy, and SSHed over my raspberry pi that didn’t ask for weird SSH settings. If it let you in, and you ran the command then it doesn’t matter how you got in.
What ONT are you replacing? Nokia 211?

Alcatel-Lucent I-211M-L

@vicfalc09

I'm trying to replace the same Alcetel ONT. I am facing the same problem and giving up after spending half a day troubleshooting this.
My PON status seems fine - get the ONU State O5.

But my Vlan ID always shows as blank :(

I am returning my ONU to Amazon and wouldn't advise anyone try this unless they want to waste hours of time. The author of this repo must have different Verizon hardware service configurations than us.

[vicfalc09]

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

I was lazy, and SSHed over my raspberry pi that didn’t ask for weird SSH settings. If it let you in, and you ran the command then it doesn’t matter how you got in.
What ONT are you replacing? Nokia 211?

Alcatel-Lucent I-211M-L

@vicfalc09

I'm trying to replace the same Alcetel ONT. I am facing the same problem and giving up after spending half a day troubleshooting this. My PON status seems fine - get the ONU State O5.

But my Vlan ID always shows as blank :( I am returning my ONU to Amazon and wouldn't advise anyone try this unless they want to waste hours of time. The author of this repo must have different Verizon hardware service configurations than us.

Yes, mine does have a Vendor ID. "ALCL"

I’m stumped. When you went into Putty to run the OMCI command did you have to change the Diffie-Hellman algorithm? That’s is the only step that I could think of that I may have messed up.

I was lazy, and SSHed over my raspberry pi that didn’t ask for weird SSH settings. If it let you in, and you ran the command then it doesn’t matter how you got in.
What ONT are you replacing? Nokia 211?

Alcatel-Lucent I-211M-L

@vicfalc09

I'm trying to replace the same Alcetel ONT. I am facing the same problem and giving up after spending half a day troubleshooting this. My PON status seems fine - get the ONU State O5.

But my Vlan ID always shows as blank :( I am returning my ONU to Amazon and wouldn't advise anyone try this unless they want to waste hours of time. The author of this repo must have different Verizon hardware service configurations than us.

Yeah I gave up as well. I even tried two different sticks.

[elcid2012]

I just wanted to add another success story to this guide, thanks to @moll3r link to the firmware for this device. My adventure was a little different.

Backstory:
Originally I had ordered a GPON stick (GPON-ONU-34-20BI) from FS.com and was using Grok to walk me through (not recommended, it's a bit all over the place). BUT, Grok had gotten me all the way to pulling a VID successfully from Verizon FiOS. One key difference is setting the PLOAM password to "0000000000" (ten zeros) which was recommended by Grok. I plugged the FS.com into my UCG-Fiber and... got no internet.

This guide showed me that very likely I just needed to set the VLAN ID in UniFi Network on the WAN interface. But before I did that, I got fed up and returned the FS.com stick, and ordered this one.

Whatever firmware came installed by default didn't allow for a blank PLOAM password, as noted by others. So, I input the 0000000000 from earlier and everything seemed to work again, except I couldn't tell what my VID was on the pre-installed firmware. However, I knew it from before, but just wanted to confirm it.

When I installed the linked firmware, it successfully showed my VID. And, it was the same as before. I'm making this comment from my OLT-bypassed Verizon FiOS internet.

For the record, here's the ssh command I used from MacOS: ssh -v -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss,ssh-rsa -o Ciphers=3des-cbc admin@192.168.1.1

Noting that the option -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null is used because I needed to bypass some keys in my store.

[kn1ght0wl]

Another 'Thank You' for this post. Directions were easy to follow and had success right off the bat. I did update the firmware before seeing this thread as the firmware in your screenshots was not what was on the ONU I received. Still doesn't match after the upgrade but is the same as in the link above and it works!

The only thing I did differently from the guide was to plug the fiber into the ONU while still in the switch I used to configure it to get the VLAN ID before plugging it into my UDM SE.

Just an FYI: If anyone uses an old Cisco switch to program the ONU as I did, you may need to run these commands to allow the SFP to be recognized by the switch:

# conf t
# service unsupported-transceiver
# no errdisable detect cause gbic-invalid
# end
#wr
#reload

Thanks Again!

[elcid2012]

The only thing I did differently from the guide was to plug the fiber into the ONU while still in the switch I used to configure it to get the VLAN ID before plugging it into my UDM SE.

I did this as well, and is a great suggestion instead of adding iptable rules to UniFi. In my case, I used a cheap $20 TPLink media converter instead of any kind of switch, and the steps worked just fine including pulling the VID from Verizon.