BGW320 public static IP block

We're here to assist with your Static IPs, @FastAndLight!

We recommend viewing our guide on configuring your gateway to allow assignment of static IPs to ensure that everything is set up correctly.

If after checking the settings, you are still not able to connect to the internet, please let us know!

CalebP, AT&T Community Specialist 

Check your device to ensure that it has gotten the correct Default Gateway and Netmask via DHCP.

@ATTHelp 

Thank you Caleb. however as you can see in my screenshot, I've done that.  I have assigned the public IPs statically to the devices on the public subnet, and they can ping each other and ping the gateway, however they cannot reach the internet.  

Thank you for that information, @FastAndLight!

Just as our ACE @JefferMC mentioned, it's recommending checking the device to ensure it received the correct information.

Let us know!

CalebP, AT&T Community Specialist 

@JefferMC  From browsing this forum trying to figure out why my setup wasn't working I was hoping to see you on the thread.  DHCP lease on a macbook connected to the public IP subnet shows that it is getting the right information.

I see IPv6 addresses in addition to the IPv4.  Are you conducting tests that you know will not use IPv6 (e.g. pinging IPv4 addresses by number, not by name), just to prevent any issues that might be related to IPv6 instead of the IPv4 that we're focusing on.

But, to be perfectly honest, I think you've nailed it when you say that the route to your Dynamic Public from your Static Block isn't set up correctly.  It'll be fun trying to find someone who knows how to try to fix that.

ATTHelp?  Are you around here??

@JefferMC 

I'm testing the ping to Google DNS 8.8.8.8. Since I can't reach DNS its useless for me to even try pinging by name.   Thank you for confirming what I have suspected from the beginning about the routes. So far in 2 days and 8+ hours on the phone with support, no one has believed me or been able to help. 

@ATTHelp , can you please help me find someone who can verify that the routes are setup between my static IP block and my Router's Fiber address.  That is the only thing that I have no way of checking myself, and no tech or customer service person has had any idea how to check that either (or even how to call someone who can).

I noticed the IPV6 and I don't think its impacting anything. My machines are all assigned IPV6 addresses, and I think its fine.  If anything its motivating me to occasionally learn more about it.  Whats fun is that from my primary desktop machine, if I run 

`curl ifconfig.io` I get my IPv6 address back. I have to remember to use ipinfo.io to get my IPv4.

@ATTHelp any input from the network side? Anything you can check to verify that the routes are setup correctly?

@JefferMC do you think it is worth the effort to setup IP passthrough and configure the OPNSense router to handle both subnets? I don't really want to spend most of my weekend messing with this, but if that is what it takes to make this work.

What do you think that routing should look like?

I think I'd wait to get fancy with the OPNSense until a simple case of the Public Static Block routing works.  Once you know that it routes to a device directly connected to the Gateway while the Gateway is configured for Subnet (not Cascaded), then if you want to get cute with the OPNSense box and IP Passthrough and routing the subnets differently, fine.   But at this point, establish a simple working baseline that you can fall back to.

We'd be happy to help you with your static IP being blocked, @FastAndLight.

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