Newcomer to the fold. 8800NL & Sky Fibre Pro

[Nismex]

Hi there,

Just wanted to register to say how excellent the new 8800NL I purchased is. Lot of advanced options and incredibly easy to setup. It even had the Priority and VLAN ID already set, all I ended up needing to do was enter my Sky username|password and it connected immediately, it did drop the sync a little but this is solely due to the amount of times I connected/disconnected when trying to extract the username|password, which was the most difficult part of getting it set up.

So big thumbs up here. Thank you.

[billion_fan]

Hi there,

Just wanted to register to say how excellent the new 8800NL I purchased is. Lot of advanced options and incredibly easy to setup. It even had the Priority and VLAN ID already set, all I ended up needing to do was enter my Sky username|password and it connected immediately, it did drop the sync a little but this is solely due to the amount of times I connected/disconnected when trying to extract the username|password, which was the most difficult part of getting it set up.

So big thumbs up here. Thank you.

A quick question, if you look at the system log, what is the lease time given to you from Sky for your WAN IP, it should state your WAN IP address and the lease time, all I need to know is the lease time

Thanks in advance

[Nismex]

Sure thing, it's 3600, so 60 minutes? Hmmm ... is there something else I need to do? Would MAC spoofing get around this, assuming every 60 minutes Skys equipment will renew my DHCP lease?

[Nismex]

Although actually checking the log, every 30 minutes there's an entry for DHCP lease.

Sep 26 12:45:56 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of WAN IP obtained, lease time 3600
Sep 26 13:15:55 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of WAN IP obtained, lease time 3600
Sep 26 13:45:55 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of WAN IP obtained, lease time 3600

[billion_fan]

Although actually checking the log, every 30 minutes there's an entry for DHCP lease.

Sep 26 12:45:56 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of WAN IP obtained, lease time 3600
Sep 26 13:15:55 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of WAN IP obtained, lease time 3600
Sep 26 13:45:55 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of WAN IP obtained, lease time 3600

Thanks for the update

[noriga]

I am not really clear with this though!!

Ok 60 Minutes lease, (which I do not agree as I have been with the same IP for the last month with Sky Fibre Unlimited even after rebooting the router and turning this on and off for over 30 minutes)

Now even if... why do I get this advertised every 30 minutes in the logs anyway if the lease was really 60 minutes (3600 seconds)??

Oct 18 03:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 03:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 04:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 04:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 05:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 05:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 06:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 06:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 07:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 07:38:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 08:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 08:38:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 09:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 09:38:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 10:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600

[billion_fan]

I am not really clear with this though!!

Ok 60 Minutes lease, (which I do not agree as I have been with the same IP for the last month with Sky Fibre Unlimited even after rebooting the router and turning this on and off for over 30 minutes)

Now even if... why do I get this advertised every 30 minutes in the logs anyway if the lease was really 60 minutes (3600 seconds)??

Oct 18 03:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 03:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 04:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 04:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 05:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 05:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 06:08:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 06:38:05 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 07:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 07:38:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 08:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 08:38:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 09:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 09:38:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600
Oct 18 10:08:04 daemon err syslog: dhcpc:Lease of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx obtained, lease time 3600

This is something Sky control, the router has no control over the DHCP lease time

See the attached thread for more information http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-broa ... -mins.html