PPPOE vs DHCP

Thu Jan 27 07:04:29 UTC 2011

If Cisco won't do a good job of RBE on the 7206VXR, I may just need to stick with PPPoEv6 on the SR train.  I have that successfully working in a test bed.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates at brightok.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:04 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: PPPOE vs DHCP

On 1/26/2011 11:03 AM, Tim Franklin wrote:
> So they're telling us, at least for PPPoE specifically.  Cisco solution is "buy ASR".
>

This is same solution they've given for the 7206 and other traditional 
IOS platforms. I haven't checked, but all the RBE/unnumbered vlan 
support for IPv6 with proxy-ND, better radius backend for DHCPv6, and 
supposedly IA_TA support for DHCPv6 will be in the ASR only. The 
features in IOS SR train are somewhat functional but extremely limited.

If I find myself having to spend money on ASRs, I may just spend the 
money replacing them with Juniper. Only reason I haven't is that I 
haven't needed to spend the money at all.

Jack