Cisco 887VA not getting IP address using MER

[TwoFries]

Hi guys,

I am studying for my CCNA and thought it would be useful to replace my SR102 with a 887VA router so that I can live with a pure Cisco network at home to get a better understanding of the day to day issues.

I have used a few of the threads on this forum to build my config but am not able to pick up an IP address from Sky and suspect that it is something simple that I have missed, or an issue with the option 60 & 61 data that I have retrieved using wireshark.

The VDSL interface seems to come up and sync with no problems but I get the following:

DHCP debug:

*Oct 23 08:20:52.416: %CONTROLLER-5-UPDOWN: Controller VDSL 0, changed state to up
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Ethernet0, changed state to up
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: DHCP client process started: 10
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: RAC: Starting DHCP discover on Ethernet0.101
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: Try 1 to acquire address for Ethernet0.101
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: allocate request
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: new entry. add to queue, interface Ethernet0.101
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: Client socket is opened
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: SDiscover attempt # 1 for entry:
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: SDiscover: sending 360 byte length DHCP packet
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: DHCP: SDiscover 360 bytes
*Oct 23 08:20:54.420: B'cast on Ethernet0.101 interface from 0.0.0.0
*Oct 23 08:20:55.420: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Ethernet0, changed state to up
*Oct 23 08:20:57.912: DHCP: SDiscover attempt # 2 for entry:
*Oct 23 08:20:57.912: DHCP: SDiscover: sending 360 byte length DHCP packet
*Oct 23 08:20:57.912: DHCP: SDiscover 360 bytes
*Oct 23 08:20:57.912: B'cast on Ethernet0.101 interface from 0.0.0.0
*Oct 23 08:21:01.912: DHCP: SDiscover attempt # 3 for entry:
*Oct 23 08:21:01.912: DHCP: SDiscover: sending 360 byte length DHCP packet
*Oct 23 08:21:01.912: DHCP: SDiscover 360 bytes
*Oct 23 08:21:01.912: B'cast on Ethernet0.101 interface from 0.0.0.0%Unknown DHCP problem.. No allocation possible

Output from show controllers VDSL 0:

Controller VDSL 0 is UP


Daemon Status: Up


XTU-R (DS) XTU-C (US)
Chip Vendor ID: 'BDCM' 'BDCM'
Chip Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0xA48C
Chip Vendor Country: 0xB500 0xB500
Modem Vendor ID: 'CSCO' ' '
Modem Vendor Specific: 0x4602 0x0000
Modem Vendor Country: 0xB500 0x0000
Serial Number Near: FCZ1943C01E C887VA-K 15.3(3)M6
Serial Number Far:
Modem Version Near: 15.3(3)M6
Modem Version Far: 0xa48c


Modem Status: TC Sync (Showtime!)
DSL Config Mode: AUTO
Trained Mode: G.993.2 (VDSL2) Profile 17a
TC Mode: PTM
Selftest Result: 0x00
DELT configuration: disabled
DELT state: not running
Trellis: ON ON
SRA: disabled disabled
SRA count: 0 0
Bit swap: enabled enabled
Bit swap count: 0 0
Line Attenuation: 0.0 dB 0.0 dB
Signal Attenuation: 0.0 dB 0.0 dB
Noise Margin: 11.6 dB 10.6 dB
Attainable Rate: 56152 kbits/s 14859 kbits/s
Actual Power: 13.0 dBm 7.5 dBm
Per Band Status: D1 D2 D3 U0 U1 U2 U3
Line Attenuation(dB): 13.3 31.6 49.4 4.8 28.0 43.1 N/A
Signal Attenuation(dB): 13.3 31.6 49.4 4.8 27.5 43.5 N/A
Noise Margin(dB): 11.6 11.6 11.6 12.6 10.6 10.4 N/A
Total FECC: 91 0
Total ES: 0 0
Total SES: 0 0
Total LOSS: 0 0
Total UAS: 303 303
Total LPRS: 0 0
Total LOFS: 0 0
Total LOLS: 0 0


Full inits: 1
Failed full inits: 0
Short inits: 0
Failed short inits: 0


Firmware Source File Name (version)
-------- ------ -------------------
VDSL embedded VDSL_LINUX_DEV_01212008 (1)


Modem FW Version: 130205_1433-4.02L.03.A2pv6C035j.d23j
Modem PHY Version: A2pv6C035j.d23j
Vendor Version: Ap6v35j.23j 68




DS Channel1 DS Channel0 US Channel1 US Channel0
Speed (kbps): 0 39999 0 9999
SRA Previous Speed: 0 0 0 0
Previous Speed: 0 0 0 0
Reed-Solomon EC: 2 91 0 0
CRC Errors: 0 0 0 0
Header Errors: 0 0 0 0
Interleave (ms): 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Actual INP: 2.01 48.00 0.00 0.00


Training Log : Stopped
Training Log Filename : flash:vdsllog.bin

Here is my current config:

version 15.3
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption
!
hostname Home_GW
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
aqm-register-fnf
!
enable password ********
!
no aaa new-model
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
ip dhcp excluded-address 172.16.50.1 172.16.50.99
ip dhcp excluded-address 172.16.50.201 172.16.50.254
!
ip dhcp pool HOME
domain-name home.local
dns-server 8.8.8.8
default-router 172.16.50.250
network 172.16.50.0 255.255.255.0
!
!
!
no ip domain lookup
ip cef
no ipv6 cef
!
!
!
!
!
multilink bundle-name authenticated
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
license udi pid C887VA-K9 sn FCZ1943C01E
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
controller VDSL 0
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface ATM0
no ip address
shutdown
no atm ilmi-keepalive
!
interface Ethernet0
mac-address ****.****.****
no ip address
!
interface Ethernet0.101
encapsulation dot1Q 101
ip dhcp client request classless-static-route
ip dhcp client class-id hex ************************************************** ***************************
ip dhcp client hostname ************@skydsl|********
ip address dhcp
no ip redirects
no ip proxy-arp
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
ip nat outside
no ip virtual-reassembly in
!
interface FastEthernet0
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet1
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet2
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet3
no ip address
!
interface Vlan1
ip address 172.16.50.250 255.255.255.0
ip flow ingress
ip flow egress
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly in
!
ip forward-protocol nd
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
ip nat inside source list NATACL interface Ethernet0.101 overload
!
ip access-list standard NATACL
permit 172.16.50.0 0.0.0.255
!
dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
!
!
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
logging synchronous
no modem enable
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
password ********
login
transport input all
line vty 5 189
password ********
login
transport input all
!
scheduler allocate 20000 1000
!
end

Any help or comments greatly appreciated

[det]

I don't remember the cli syntax, but the value you're setting in "ipdhcp client hostname ************@skydsl|********"
should be set as the client-identifier instead.