[cisco-bba] 7204vxr as LNS - provider is LAC

[Mike]

On 8/18/15, 8:06 AM, Gary T. Giesen wrote:
> What kind of NPE in the 7204? I've used 7206 NPE-G1's and they work fairly well at small scale (less than 1000 subs), the G2 is better as it supports more features (particularly things like QoS).
>
> ASR1k's are great LNS boxes, just have to be careful when migrating from 7200's to ASRs as they are a lot more strict about what RADIUS attributes you can use and may cause you lots of frustration trying to figure it out. In particular they don't support full Virtual-Access interfaces (only sub-interfaces) so any attribute that requires a full Virtual-Access interface will not work.
>
> GTG
>
This is the situation I have too - a 7201 terminating pppoe subscribers 
- about 1100 - and am now migrating to an Asr1000. What features exactly 
cause the requirement for full virtual-access interface? I know my ASR 
has the horsepower to do the job but it's got more features and things I 
plan on experimenting with in the future, including making much more 
extensive use of the QoS features per-subscriber which is somthing I am 
not doing today on the 7201.

Mike-