[cisco-bba] Multiple PPPoE clients on the same PVC

[Dennis Peng]

Tassos Chatzithomaoglou [achatz at forthnet.gr] wrote:
> 
> After having a look at 
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t2/ftpppoec.htm
> i found:
> ---------------------------------------
> One ATM PVC will support one PPPoE client. Multiple PPPoE clients can run 
> concurrently on different PVCs, but each PPPoE client must use a separate 
> dialer interface and a separate dialer pool.
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> I though (after reading PPPoE RFC) that multiple PPPoE sessions were 
> possible on the same PVC. Is this something that Cisco doesn't
> support?

We support it on the PPPoE server side, not on the client side.

> Are there any plans for support in a future ios release?

Not that I know of. Is there a lot of interest in this among other
folks?

Dennis

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