NowTV - Cisco Router 897VA - Guide

[pr0xibus]

This will just be here, well just incase someone decides to use a Cisco Router with NowTV, I believe this will work for Sky too.  My config is below, as a guide, and the Router I used was a Cisco 897VA, built in VDSL modem.

My config, includes the DHCP server built in, 

ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.1.1
ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.1.254
!
ip dhcp pool LAN
network 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0
dns-server 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
default-router 192.168.1.1
!
!
!
ip domain name mydomainname
ip cef
no ipv6 cef
!
!
!
!
!
multilink bundle-name authenticated
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!

!
!
controller VDSL 0
!
ip ssh version 2
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface ATM0
no ip address
shutdown
no atm ilmi-keepalive
cdp enable
!
interface BRI0
no ip address
encapsulation hdlc
shutdown
isdn termination multidrop
!
interface Ethernet0
mac-address 2E7C.B725.1992 < MAC address as xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
no ip address
!
interface Ethernet0.101
encapsulation dot1Q 101
ip dhcp client client-id hex 332339484337313533392638406E6F777476 -< This is a hex of the below "mac@nowtv|password"
ip dhcp client hostname 2E5CC7251992@nowtv|1234567890abcdef -< You will need your own MAC address, guides online, the password is default I believe
ip address dhcp
no ip redirects
no ip unreachables
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly in
!
interface GigabitEthernet0
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet1
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet2
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet3
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet4
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet5
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet6
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet7
no ip address
!
interface GigabitEthernet8
no ip address
shutdown
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface Vlan1
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly in
!
interface Dialer0
no ip address
no shutdown
!
ip forward-protocol nd
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
ip nat pool LAN 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside source list LAN interface Ethernet0.101 overload
!
ip access-list standard LAN
permit 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
ip access-list standard SSH
permit 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
!
!
!
control-plane
!
!
mgcp behavior rsip-range tgcp-only
mgcp behavior comedia-role none
mgcp behavior comedia-check-media-src disable
mgcp behavior comedia-sdp-force disable
!
mgcp profile default
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
line con 0
no modem enable
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
access-class SSH in
logging synchronous
login local
transport input ssh
!
scheduler allocate 20000 1000
!
!
!
end

cisco-router#

[RoyB]

@pr0xibus 

I’m surprised to see no obvious mention of MER 61. Does that not come into it somewhere?

[pr0xibus]

I think just assigning the Mac to the Ethernet0 is enough for sky to know who is who, then the Sub interface would take care of the Auth....

Fairly new to all this, or old to all this, but been a long time dealing with anything network related, and to be honest cant remember at any point in my studies dealing with VDSL 😄 so whilst figuring this out, I was hoping there was a nice simple "client-options" command where I could just put 61, but fraid not.

But it was cool to get it working, no longer with NowTV just recently moved, it may help 1 or 2 people in the next 5 years or so 😄 

interface Ethernet0
mac-address 2E7C.B725.1992 < MAC address as xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
no ip address

interface Ethernet0.101
encapsulation dot1Q 101
ip dhcp client client-id hex 332339484337313533392638406E6F777476 -< This is a hex of the below "mac@nowtv|password"
ip dhcp client hostname 2E5CC7251992@nowtv|1234567890abcdef -< You will need your own MAC address, guides online, the password is default I believe
ip address dhcp
no ip redirects
no ip unreachables
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly in