 InssomniakThe GlitchPremium
join:2005-04-06
Cayuga, ON
kudos:1 | reply to unwired
Re: [Tech Ops] MPLS said by unwired:Is there an advantage to centrally locating your ppp termination - I was planning on terminating at each pop.
I used to do that, hated it.
Wasted IP space, had to constantly reconfigure to add IP addresses (no big deal if you are using private space I guess). Radius config was a pain.
It was just a central place to manage stuff, keep all the hard work on a core (powerful) router.
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unwiredPremium
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Algoma, WI | Ok - IP Space is my reasoning for changing to pppoe - I can centrally manage the ip pool while keeping NAS server closer to the customers. I guess more specifically is there an advantage to running mpls vs routing public ip's with ospf. To implement I would have to replace all of the routers on my network. Just trying to figure out if its justified and if I would see an improvement over straight ospf routing or would it be a lot of work for little gain. |
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InssomniakThe GlitchPremium
join:2005-04-06
Cayuga, ON
kudos:1 | Well unless you want to run VPLS VPN tunnels I wouldn't be switching.
Ospf won't degrade packet forwarding performance. It's just a route distribution protocol.
You don't really switch necessarily. I still use ospf alongside with mpls. You still need to have routes. MPLS works over current routing table wether its static or OSPF or BGP or whatever.
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If you were running OSPF, why you were wasting IP space ?
It doesnt make any sense. |
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InssomniakThe GlitchPremium
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Cayuga, ON
kudos:1 | said by spectrumhead:If you were running OSPF, why you were wasting IP space ?
It doesnt make any sense.
I dont really remember if I was, I think the problem I was having is if 13 PPPoE concentrators were hitting the radius server at the same time (say after a large power blackout), the radius server would inadvertently assign the same IP address to 2-3 different customers. At least with it all on one concentrator it would reject the duplicate IP and try again, although I have not seen that in a long time (perhaps my radius/database server was too slow at the time).
Another reason I went with central concentrator was the ease of adding in other access sites, it was simple to just add an IP, turn on OSPF, MPLS, LDP and assign a VPLS tunnel ID, and bridge in my APs. Keeps CPU usage low, and configs simple..
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| Yes as I am currently thinking about doing the same, centralizing the PPPoE server with MPLS, but all this MPLS and VPLS stuff seems so complicated to me. |
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