[cisco-bba] SESM & 7301's

[Gordon Smith]

Thanks Peter,

I'll hunt down the API and have a look. We could certainly develop our own in-house application to work with this.
Michael Kopp, one of the contributors to ethereal, has told me that he's added the VSA used to ethereal (versions > 0.10.x)
If anyone's interested, the VSA of interest is 252 - Command Info

We only ended up with this particular solution because our company was a Cisco-only shop. They've now accepted adding some Extreme switches into the mix :-)

What are others on the list using for broadband? Pure aggregation isn't really that attractive any more - the customer expects value-add services as well. I've looked at the ERX with the SDX backend from Juniper, which was pretty good (and expensive), but haven't seen anything about some of the other manufacturers e.g. net.com

It'd be nice to see Cisco add some of the features available on their competitors platforms.I've been very impressed with the performance of the 7301's though - they stand up to DoS attacks exceptionally well.

Cheers,
Gordon
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: p.gaspar at mobilkom.at [mailto:p.gaspar at mobilkom.at]
> Sent: Friday, 16 April 2004 2:05 a.m.
> To: Gordon Smith; cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
> Subject: AW: [cisco-bba] SESM & 7301's
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the protocol between SSG and SESM is actualy RADIUS with few 
> vendor-specific
> attributes in the packets. SESM should be able to work with 
> LDAP but I can't
> say anything more as I was never interested in the services 
> part of the SSG
> installation. There exists an API for programing your own 
> interaction with
> SSG, so you don't need to use SESM if you can develope your 
> own solution
> (that will cooperate with LDAP)
> 
> More info can be found under:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps4889/product
> s_installation
> _and_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00801b124e.html#1045039
> 
> Peter
>  
> 
>