[cisco-bba] Re:

Dennis Peng dpeng at cisco.com
Mon Aug 29 13:48:54 EDT 2005


Mark Tohill [Mark at u.tv] wrote:
> 
> We came up against the same problem a few weeks ago running 12.3(4)T9 on
> 7204VXR using PPPoA/L2TP VPDN.
> 
> Thanks for the info Dennis. Does not seem to be a pppoa command for the
> version we are running. :(

The "pppoa" option should be present, although it is a hidden command
(as is the "pppoe" and "vpdn" options).

Dennis

> Was forwarded the following from TAC:
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1839/products_feature_
> guide09186a00800f4b47.html
> 
> Mark
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0700
> From: Dennis Peng <dpeng at cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: [cisco-bba] PPPOE attempts overwhelming Radius
> To: Sam Meftahi <SAF at sonofon.dk>
> Cc: cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
> Message-ID: <20050809224214.GG19864 at dhcp-171-69-89-146.cisco.com>
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> 
> In 12.3(2)T or later, a generic call admission control mechanism
> exists which allows you to specify that only <n> number of sessions
> can be established per time interval <t>. You can do this by
> configuring:
> 
> call admission limit <n>
> call admission load 0 32
> call admission pppoe 1 <t>
> 
> If we ever exceed the load limit, wee will ignore any PADI's received.
> 
> Calculation of the current load is actually broken up into two parts,
> one is the load caused by new sessions, the second is the "system"
> load due to existing sessions.
> 
> With the "call admission pppoe <x> <y>" command, you are declaring
> that each new PPPoE session puts a load of <x> for <y> seconds on the
> box. Besides PPPoE, we also support declaring the load for PPPoA and
> VPDN sessions.
> 
> The load of existing sessions is measured by the CPU utilization and
> looking for buffer starvation. "call admission load <x> <y>" takes the
> average of the CPU utilization and buffer utilization (which is either
> 0% or 95% depending on whether any public buffer pools have total >
> permanent) and multiplies (scales) it by <x> to get the "system"
> load. We poll the CPU/buffer stats every <y> seconds.
> 
> In my above example, I've ignored the system load by setting the
> scaling factor to 0. Without declaring any session type load factors
> (for PPPoE/PPPoA/VPDN), we simply look at the "system" load. You'll
> have to tune the parameters to meet the capabilities of you network.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> Sam Meftahi [SAF at sonofon.dk] wrote:
> > During an IOS upgrade, and reload many customers were unable to
> connect
> > and some did but no IP address was assigned.
> > 
> > I suspect this is due to Radius not coping with BAS demand. Is there
> any
> > ways to fine tune this process on BRAS? 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Sam
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:07:54 -0700
> From: Dennis Peng <dpeng at cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: [cisco-bba] ip local pool default
> To: Mark Tohill <Mark at u.tv>
> Cc: cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
> Message-ID: <20050811170748.GB12591 at dhcp-171-69-89-146.cisco.com>
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> 
> No, that won't work.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> Mark Tohill [Mark at u.tv] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is it ok to add address space using something like:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ip local pool default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > to the default local pool which is already populated with numerous
> /24,
> > for example.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Than, remove the address space to be reclaimed from the pool with:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > no ip local pool default aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa bbb.bbb.bbb.bbb
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Has anyone tried this?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> >  
> > 
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