Anyone dd wrt for SKY vdsl?

Nazbit · 27 Jan 2017 at 16:52

Hi,

Wondering if anyone has this working?

Replaced my sky box over a year ago with a netgear r7800. The connection is set up with the dchp client identifier string (option 61) sniffed from the old router.

I'd like to flash dd wrt but I'm finding mixed responses on how to / if it is possible to set up the dchp string on these.

Various forum posts suggest it may have worked once via command line but has been removed from subsequent builds.

Anyone got it working?

If so what build are you on and how straight forward was it?

Thanks

Nazbit · 28 Jan 2017 at 17:26

Hi,

Doesn't look like anyone is using custom firmware with sky then which is presumably an indicator that this isn't possible any more, which is a shame as it worked in previous builds.

Managed to flash the latest Kong build on to another 7800 I had. But I can't establish a connection.

Connected in to busybox root via SSH and ran the following...

killall udhcpc
udhcpc -i eth0 -x 0x3d:xxxxxx -p /var/run/udhcpc.pid -s/tmp/udhcpc &

Where xxxxxx is my client identifier sniffed from the sky box that I've been running successfully in my stock r7800.

All I get is :

Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover

Also tried eth1 with no joy but I presume the internet port is eth0.

Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to use dd wrt to connect to SKY using their MER protocol.

Can anyone offer any assistance at all???

Thanks

neodude · 28 Jan 2017 at 17:38

I've used DD-WRT in the past with Sky Fibre, more recently I've used Merlin firmware with my old ASUS router. I seem to remember that the string I input to connect on DD-WRT required both a Username AND a password.

EDIT

Yep, I've still got it saved in a text file...

Code:

killall udhcpc
/usr/sbin/udhcpc -i vlan2 -V "5.27.1a4N|PCBAFAST2504Nv1.0" -c "############@skydsl|################" -p /var/run/udhcpc.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc &

This was on a TP-Link router though.

KIA · 28 Jan 2017 at 18:41

Not sure if this is related.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=30408673&postcount=4063

Nazbit · 28 Jan 2017 at 20:06

neodude said:
Yep, I've still got it saved in a text file...

Thanks I will give that a go in the morning although it does look like its in the same format as the command that worked for earlier builds and doesn't work any more, built I'll definitely give it a go.

KIA said:
Not sure if this is related.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=30408673&postcount=4063

Thanks, my standard 7800 is not spoofing the mac address but I'll give it a go on the dd wrt one. I suspect that they're only getting away with using a generic password because that Asus router has a built in Sky / MER mode which is allowing them to get that info on to the dhcp hand shake.

I already have my client identifier and password the problem is that dd wrt offers me no way of getting that info in to the dhcp hand shake, even if a generic password will now work.

So annoying that this was possible in previous builds