Just wanted to post this in hopes it helps someone in the future since we couldn't find any information on it and it took WAY too long to get someone at CenturyLink to get us the information we needed.
If you have a Netvanta 5660 with century link and want to bypass it tech support will more than likely want to put the device into a bridge mode or pass through mode. This is stupid if you are wanting to run your own router/firewall because now you will have two potential failure points Additionally you still wont be able to get access to the 5660 so if there are issues down the road you have no idea what the Netvanta is doing without calling in. After talking to literally 20+ people at CenturyLink over 2 days, who all kept saying we HAD to run their equipment, but also couldn't figure out why port 1701 was being blocked, we finally got someone on the phone who said we could remove their equipment and just take their settings and put them our equipment. Seems simple enough, but like I said, when you are told by everyone that it will not work we just figured we couldn't do this. Here are the simple instruction....
Take the iPv4 Customer Serial IP address that you are given and set that as your routers IP address and use the DNS they give you as well and you are set to go.
I really hope this helps someone else out. It took us almost 2 months to get service turned up to a building that already had their fiber in it, and another 2 days of config changes and troubleshooting to get everything up and operational. CenturyLink Business is the most disorganized group of individuals and after this experience I don't understand how they are still in business.
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