Cisco 1841 with ADSL card

This is Cisco 1841 Integrated Services Router connected to ADSL PSTN BT line with O2 Broadband configuration.

Product codding

WAN Interface Card - ATM (With ADSL module)

Product: WIC-1ADSL
Description: ADSL OVER POTS WIC (WIC-1ADSL)
Minimum IOS for c1800 platform: 12.3(8)T 
Current IOS: 12.4(25f)
         
        Digital Subscriber Line
       /
WIC-1ADSL
 \    \     
  \     ADSL (asymmetric DSL)
    WAN Interface Card

Router>sh inventory
NAME: "chassis", DESCR: "1841 chassis"
PID: CISCO1841         , VID: V06 , SN: FCZxxxx92VG 
NAME: "WIC/HWIC 0", DESCR: "WAN Interface Card - ATM (With ADSL module)"
PID: WIC-1ADSL=        , VID: 2.3, SN: FOCxxxx5UT9

Compare WIC-1ADSL vs HWIC-1ADSL

ADSL OVER POTS WIC (WIC-1ADSL)	ADSL over Basic Telephone Service (HWIC-1ADSL)
Supports ADSL over POTS with Annex A ITU 992.1 (G.dmt) Complies with ANSI T1.413 issue 2 Supports ATM AAL5 Supports ATM Class of Service features CBR, VBR-nrt, VBR-rt, UBR Supports IP QoS Supports up to 23 virtual circuits on WIC Interoperates with third party and Cisco DSLAMs One RJ-11 ADSL interface based on the Alcatel/ST Micro 20150 chipset	Supports ADSL over basic telephone service with Annex A ITU G. 992.1 (ADSL), G.992.3 (ADSL2), and G.992.5 (ADSL2+) Supports reach-extended ADSL2 standard (G.992.3) Annex L Complies with ANSI T1.413 issue 2 Supports ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5) services Supports ATM CoS features constant bit rate (CBR), non-real-time variable bit rate (VBR-nrt), real-time variable bit rate (VBR-rt), and unspecified bit rate (UBR) Supports up to 23 virtual circuits per HWIC Supports IP quality of service (QoS) Supports Dying Gasp function Has one RJ-11 ADSL interface Interoperates with third-party DSLAMs (See Tables 1 and 2) based on the Alcatel/ST Micro 20190 chipset
Data sheet WIC-1ADSL	Data sheet HWIC-1ADSL

o2 broadband configuration

This paragraph is also here Cisco 1941 with EHWIC-VA-DSL-M

o2 is one of this UK odd ISPs who is using RFC 1483 Bridge when providing ADSL2+ Internet access. Below are details provided by O2 and config build on this information.

ISP name: O2 Home Broadband  
Encapsulation: RFC 1483 Bridged
Multiplexing method: LLC-Based 
VPI: 0  
VCI: 101  
Username: leave blank  
Password: leave blank  
Domain name: leave blank  
IP address type: this depends on whether you chose our static IP address option or not:
    If you didn't choose our static IP address option, set this to dynamic IP
    If you did choose our static IP address, enter the IP address printed in your welcome letter  
DNS servers: choose to get these dynamically from the Internet provider  
NAT: enable  
Primary DNS server: 87.194.255.155  
Secondary DNS server: Leave blank 

If you have a static IP address, you should enter the following DNS server address:
Primary DNS server: 87.194.255.154
My o2 box MAC address: 00-24-17-80-42-d0

A BVI (Bridged Virtual Interface)

is a virtual interface that acts like a normal routed interface. A BVI does not support bridging but actually represents the corresponding bridge group to routed interfaces. The interface number is the link between the BVI and the bridge group. Think of the BVI as the default gateway to all the bridge interfaces, all local traffic is bridged between the bridge interfaces, but the traffic that is not local to the bridge group is routed via the BVI interface. Read more on Cisco Community

Integrated Routing and Bridging

bridge irb command enables Integrated Routing and Bridging, then sub-interface atm0/1/0.1 and gi0/0 belong to the same Bridge Group 1 having both bridge-group 1 in their interface configurations. BVI1 (bridge virtual interface) is configured to represents both atm0/1/0.1 and gi0/0 interfaces when ip protocol is routed. Two lines at the bottom bridge 1 protocol ieee and bridge 1 route ip define the Bridge Group 1 is using IEEE bridge protocol and routes IP protocol.

Below config is working with O2 as of 8th Oct 2013, public ip address is provided by ISP dhcp server. Please see sub-interface atm0/1/0.1 command ip address dhcp therefore static ip route something like ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 O2_gateway_ip is excluded. Please think about both commands when configuring static IP address given by O2.

Configuration step-by-step

Configure ATM interface

interface ATM0/0/0
 no ip address
 no ip redirects
 no ip unreachables
 no ip proxy-arp
 atm restart timer 300
 no atm ilmi-keepalive
 dsl operating-mode auto
 no shutdown
!
interface ATM0/0/0.1 point-to-point
 description Link to O2 Broadband
 ip address dhcp
 ip nat enable
 ip virtual-reassembly
 atm route-bridged ip
 pvc 0/101
  oam-pvc manage
  encapsulation aal5snap

Enable NAT port translation on nat-inside fa0/0 local LAN gateway interface and atm0/0/0.1 nat-outside

interface FastEthernet0/0
 ip nat enable
interface ATM0/0/0.1 point-to-point 
 ip nat enable

Catch traffic using access-list

access-list 1 remark Local network PAT-to-internet
access-list 1 permit 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.255

Enable NAT overload

ip nat source list 1 interface ATM0/0/0.1 overload

Verification

c1841#sh dsl interface
ATM0/0/0
Alcatel 20150 chipset information
                ATU-R (DS)                      ATU-C (US)
Modem Status:    Showtime (DMTDSL_SHOWTIME)
DSL Mode:        ITU G.992.1 (G.DMT) Annex A
ITU STD NUM:     0x01                            0x1
Vendor ID:       'ALCB'                          'BDCM'
Vendor Specific: 0x0000                          0xA1E9
Vendor Country:  0x00                            0xB5
Capacity Used:   57%                             91%
Noise Margin:    18.0 dB                          7.0 dB
Output Power:    20.0 dBm                        12.0 dBm
Attenuation:     44.0 dB                         27.5 dB
Defect Status:   None                            None
Last Fail Code:  Error in early non-CRC message or in first CRC-covered message
Selftest Result: 0x00
Subfunction:     0x15
Interrupts:      55585 (0 spurious)
PHY Access Err:  0
Activations:     2
LED Status:      ON
LED On Time:     100
LED Off Time:    100
Init FW:         embedded
Operation FW:    embedded
SW Version:      3.8131
FW Version:      0x1A04

                 Interleave             Fast    Interleave              Fast
Speed (kbps):          3520                0           800                 0
Cells:               339873                0       5128305                 0
Reed-Solomon EC:         27                0             0                 0
CRC Errors:               0                0             0                 0
Header Errors:            0                0             0                 0
Bit Errors:               0                0
BER Valid sec:            0                0
BER Invalid sec:          0                0

LOM Monitoring : Disabled

DMT Bits Per Bin
00: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 6 9 A A A B B
10: B B B B B B B B A A A A 9 A 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 8
30: 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 8 9 9
40: 8 7 8 2 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
50: 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
60: 8 8 7 8 8 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 8 7
70: 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
80: 7 7 6 7 7 6 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6
90: 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 5
A0: 4 2 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5
B0: 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 2 4 4 4 4
C0: 3 4 2 4 4 4 4 2 4 3 3 3 3 2 3 2
D0: 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0
E0: 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
F0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

DSL: Training log buffer capability is not enabled

References

• Cisco ADSL WAN Interface Cards WIC-1ADSL
• ADSL2 and ADSL2 High-Speed WAN Interface Cards HWIC-1ADSL
• WIC-1ADSL speed Adjust clock rate aal5 to improve speed on WIC-1ADSL card
• Interfaces and Modules for Cisco 1841 Router