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Netavo BNG#

Netavo BNG is a software broadband network gateway for commodity x86-64 hardware running Debian 13 (Trixie). It terminates PPPoE and IPoE subscribers directly, acts as an L2TP LNS for wholesale access, and integrates carrier-grade NAT, routing via FRR, and RADIUS-driven policy — on the same box or as separate roles.

How this manual is organised#

The manual is split by what you are trying to do, not by product component. If you are in the wrong section, the page you are reading will be unhelpful in a specific way:

  • Tutorial

    Start here if the appliance is new to you. A single guided path from first boot to a working subscriber session, with nothing optional in it.

  • Guides

    Task-focused instructions for someone who already knows the product — configure an LNS, enrol a licence, add a VRF, drain the box for an upgrade.

  • Features

    What each capability does, how it behaves, and where its limits are. Read these to decide whether and how to use something.

  • Reference

    Exhaustive, generated detail: every CLI command, every configuration key, the REST API and the SNMP surface. Look things up here; do not read it front to back.

Getting help#

  • The CLI is self-documenting: press ? at any point for the accepted completions, the same help text this manual's CLI reference is generated from.
  • The appliance serves this manual locally at /docs, and a copy is on disk at /usr/share/doc/netavo-bng/html — available from the console even when the web UI is not.
  • The REST API reference is generated from the running product's OpenAPI document; the appliance serves the machine-readable spec at /api/v1/openapi/v1.json.