How to determine remaining lease time for WAN? (Canadian/Teksavvy)
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Can anyone tell me how I can determine the remaining lease time for WAN?
I am in the process of switching from Rogers to Teksavvy, and I am trying to determine how long the leases are that cable modem hands out. I am fortunate that I can just swap the modems to switch between the 2 services while I am trying things out, but I have to make a choice of which service to keep.
If there are any Teksavvy users that can provide any input, it would be much appreciated.
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@guardian I've been with Teksavvy for about 10 years. I've never needed to know the lease expiry time. As for which to keep, it's a no-brainer: Teksavvy. You get more for less every time, and their support is great.
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@KOM said in How to determine remaining lease time for WAN? (Canadian/Teksavvy):
@guardian I've been with Teksavvy for about 10 years. I've never needed to know the lease expiry time. As for which to keep, it's a no-brainer: Teksavvy. You get more for less every time, and their support is great.
Thanks @KOM for the reply (I'm in the GTA/York Region Area), just wondering if we are in the same part of the country?
I have spoken with tech support a couple of times just to get a bit of technical information and they seem to be quite good. I hope things will continue - IIUC they have been bought out.
I had rogers (TV/Internet for years), but they are pushing "Ignite" service (jacked the price way up on the legacy cable TV product, so I ditched cable). To get a decent price on the Rogers internet I would be forced to have multiple active WiFi transmitters running that I can't turn off, which for me is a hard no. Teksavvy was happy to send me a dumb modem which only does bridge mode which make things real easy--just plug into pfSense and it's up and running.
How often does your IP address change?
With Robbers my IP address stayed static for years, and they had a nice cryptic reverse DNS that I could use for my road warrior VPN without attracting any attention because of a custom DNS entry. With Teksavvy, I need to figure out how to do dynamic DNS, but that's not a big issue. Just not as stealthy.
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@guardian if you want the lease time for your wan interface.. just look in /var/db you will see a dhclient.leases.interface file
On my pfsense the wan is igb1, if I look at that file I can see the lease is for 604800 seconds or 7 days.
That being said, it really has never changed.. Same IP for years, it only changed once when isp merged with another company and they redid all their ip space.
My previous cable isp had that IP for years and years and it never changed. Sure some isp my force and IP change, but with dhcp as long as you renew it, you should always get the same IP.
The expire there at the end tells you how much time you have left on that lease before it expires, unless renewed.
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@guardian said in How to determine remaining lease time for WAN? (Canadian/Teksavvy):
With Robbers my IP address stayed static for years, and they had a nice cryptic reverse DNS that I could use for my road warrior VPN
Yep, my IPv4 address is virtually static and the host name only changes when I change hardware, as it's based on the MAC addresses. I've also had my IPv6 prefix for almost 5 years. I don't know how Teksavvy does with that.
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@johnpoz said in How to determine remaining lease time for WAN? (Canadian/Teksavvy):
@guardian if you want the lease time for your wan interface.. just look in /var/db you will see a dhclient.leases.interface file
Thanks @johnpoz that is very helpful and exactly what I was looking for, and then some.
@JKnott said in How to determine remaining lease time for WAN? (Canadian/Teksavvy):
@guardian said in How to determine remaining lease time for WAN? (Canadian/Teksavvy):
With Robbers my IP address stayed static for years, and they had a nice cryptic reverse DNS that I could use for my road warrior VPN
Yep, my IPv4 address is virtually static and the host name only changes when I change hardware, as it's based on the MAC addresses. I've also had my IPv6 prefix for almost 5 years. I don't know how Teksavvy does with that.
Hi @JKnott, I assume that you are on Rogers based on our previous discussion. I just signed up for Teksavvy, and so far it looks good. Only downside so far is that I had to set up Dynamic DNS since the Teksavvy reverese DNS is not linked to the subscriber - just the IP address.
Time will tell how long the IP address stays the same. I must admit that there is a benefit to turning over an IP address as it makes the IP address useless for corporate tracking - AFAIK customer/IP mapping is not being sold to data brokers, so only with long term holding of an IP address can the user of that IP address be used for long term tracking.
What I found really refreshing about my dealing with Teksavvy was (1) tech support could actually provide me with useful information, and (2) when I said I didn't want their WiFi, and I wanted to use my own router, they gladly sent me a dumb modem that only runs in bridge mode and had no WiFi hardware.
Time will tell how long they stay good based on market forces.
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Sorry to revive this thread from the dead.. But, how do you read the contents of the dhclient.leases. file?
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NVM, I figured it out.
I just type the following string in the command prompt window (SG-4100):
more /var/db/dhclient.leases.ix3It sure would be nice if WAN lease time information was an option in the Gateway monitoring widget...
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