{"id":24925,"date":"2026-09-05T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=24925"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:29:15","slug":"dont-forget-about-bogons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/05\/dont-forget-about-bogons\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops! (Was: Don’t Forget about Bogons…)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GL-MT3000 tethered to an iPhone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

So, after a week I had to revise this post substantially. Originally it was talking about how the bogons<\/a> list contains private addresses and how in OPNSense<\/a> this caused problems with using a private network ranged router (like the aforementioned GL-MT3000<\/a>) as a WAN link caused problems. But then on a quiet Saturday morning a week later I went to reproduce the problem, gather data, and fix it, and… I can’t. So I’m just going to chalk that situation up to me being tired\/stressed due to the lengthy power failure or maybe something getting weird\/munged\/misaligned rule-wise and a tidy-up sorting it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t like it, but that happens sometimes. (Get something wrong, go to reproduce, doesn’t work…) What annoys me is went back and forth so many times when it happened that thought I had it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, at least it’s working now, with nothing to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, here’s the revised post without the now-known-false claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a severe round of early September storms here in Southeast Michigan we’re in the midst of a multi-day power-and-internet outage. While mobile hot spots were kinda working, it was also a pain not having the normal network up, especially as I troubleshot why some Home Assistant devices didn’t come back online. So I set out to up our normal network with a tethered mobile phone as its public internet link instead of the cable modem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was super-easy to do, in general, using the aforementioned GL-MT3000<\/a> reset to defaults\u2020, connected to an iPhone, in basic router mode, and plugged into the WAN port of my OPNsense router (replacing the cable modem). I did this instead of connecting the iPhone directly because OPNsense doesn’t have all the drivers needed loaded by default — changes I didn’t want to make for a temporary solution — and the router is down in the basement where cell phone signal isn’t quite as good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I considered setting up multi-WAN with failover mode, this is a really rare occurrence, and I won’t be keeping the phone connected after Wide Open West<\/a> comes back online, so replacing the cable modem was much cleaner and simpler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2020 Thanks to the lovely brownout, my GL-MT3000 would no longer boot. I had to use the Debrick via Uboot<\/a> process to get it working again. Fortunately it wasn’t actually-dead. And now I’ll have to put back the IPv6 tunnel stuff… But at least that’s documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, after a week I had to revise this post substantially. Originally it was talking about how the bogons list contains private addresses and how in OPNSense this caused problems with using a private network ranged router (like the aforementioned GL-MT3000) as a WAN link caused problems. But then on a quiet Saturday morning a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24938,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24925\/revisions\/24938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}