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

[Clayton Zekelman]

I've used this sort of thing before on a Netopia router.

The customer can have 2 PPPoE sessions both going to the same PPPoE server, 
but then tunneling off through L2TP from there 2 to different service 
providers.

An example I can think of is when a client of ours had his router set up to 
authenticate on both our network using his @mnsi.net userid, and on Bell 
Canada's own ISP using @sympatico.ca.

Its true that the applications for this would be somewhat limited.  Our 
customer who used that config eventually just ditched the Sympatico account 
anyways, and stuck with a single PPPoE session to our network.


At 02:50 PM 01/10/2003, Siva Valliappan wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
>
>out of curiousity.  how do you plan to envision using multiple PPPoE
>sessions on the same VC on the client side?  it definitely makes sense
>on the aggregation side and we support it.  but i don't see what problem
>we can solve by having multiple sessions on the same VC on the client side.
>
>cheers
>.siva
>
> > Dennis
> >
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