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Trashing the Vodafone Station

How to replace the Vodafone Station with your very own router

Vodafone forces its customers to use their modem/router, the "Vodafone Station": using any other router is impossible because authentication is being done via a custom PPPoE setup.
In the PPPoE packet there is a field named Host-Uniq which is used to separate packets from different PPPoE sessions: Vodafone requires the Station serial number to be put in this field as authentication.

Hardware setup

A Linux router with root access is needed to replace the Station with. With an xDSL connection a modem with a custom firmware like OpenWrt has to be used, most likely one based on a Lantiq SoC.
For a FTTH internet connection then every machine with at least two gigabit ethernet interface and a decent CPU will do it.

Retrieve kubeconfig from RKE v0.2.x or Rancher v2.2.x custom cluster controlplane node

For RKE v0.1.x and Rancher v2.0.x/v2.1.x, see https://gist.github.com/superseb/3d8de6092ebc4b1581185197583f472a

This needs to be run on a node with the controlplane role, as it rewrites the server endpoint to https://127.0.0.1:6443, you can of course manually change this if necessary.

Applicable for:

RKE v0.2.x
Rancher v2.2.x

	#!/bin/bash

	hosted_zone_id="<your Route53 hosted zone id>"
	domain_name="<your domain name>"

	# Abort script on any errors
	set -e

	# Get new IP address
	ip_address=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4`

	---
	- hosts: all

	vars:
	repo_url: ssh://[email protected]/user/repo.git
	base_dir: /var/www

	sparse_checkout:
	- folder1