Sky fibre and Home VPN / DDNS

thebandit · 3 Oct 2015 at 09:25

Just about to move from Virgin to SKy for my braodband. My current setup is to have the home hub in modem only and I have an ASUS n56u as my router. This has built in DDNS services which can be used in conjunction with the VPN setup in the router.
I would like the same setup when moving over to SKy, but the SKy router has no modem only mode. The work around is putting the n56u in the DMZ on the SKy router, but I'm pretty sure like this my VPN will not work as the ASUS won't get the WAN address. Does anyone know if it will work or how to get it to work ?

I guess the alternative is to by a new router whch has dsl moden in but I would rather not.

kayomani · 3 Oct 2015 at 10:36

I know on the adsl service you could extract the username and password and some routers worked with a little bit of config. It was totally unsupported by sky as I think it's against the t and cs

Uhtred · 3 Oct 2015 at 16:23

I hooked my sky fibre broadband up to my old BT infinity HG612 and extracted my username/password with wireshark. You also have to clone the MAC address of the sky router.

I then connected the 612 up to a pfsense box but you could just as easily connect it to your n56u

works a treat and I've seen a lot of those modems on the bay go for ~£15

thebandit · 6 Oct 2015 at 15:44

Thanks chaps, a quick google for HG612 with Sky and it seems that should solve my problem.

the-evaluator · 6 Oct 2015 at 17:53

thebandit said:
I'm pretty sure like this my VPN will not work as the ASUS won't get the WAN address.

It should still work. I'm using an OpenVPN ESXi appliance which has an RFC1918 address and the VPN works just fine.