[cisco-nas] terminating DSL VLANs/Tunnels (spec. bell nexxia, canada)

Dave [Hawk-Systems] dave at hawk-systems.com
Fri Aug 8 17:04:58 EDT 2003


>
>Is this a Bell Nexxia PPPoE service (GAS) or ADSL gateway
>(HSA)?
>If it's GAS you'll also need to terminate the L2TP on a
>specific device.

Both types of connections will be coming over these pipe and terminating at the
switch for routing to the internet.   Not understanding your second statement.

Dave

>-----Original Message-----

>(may be OT in that it doesn't specifically reference a cisco
>nas, but it deals
>in access provisisioning of sirts so am hoping it will reach
>the right audience)
>
>we are about to terminate a 100baset connection from bell
>nexxia up here over
>which they will be sending 120 tunnels from the various
>redback switches to us
>spread over 12 VLANs.
>this will connect all the various DSL clients to our network
>for us to route
>traffic out our internet pipe (datacenter).
>
>We are looking at having this terminate into a Cisco 3550
>EMI to have all the
>VLANs and Tunnel switching and so forth.  This would provide
>sufficient port
>density for the DNS, Radius, and so forth servers wthat will
>also occupy the
>rack in the datacenter.
>
>Had some brief speculation on this earlier, and before
>actually purchasing,
>wanted to make sure that this would more than likely handle
>our needs.  Can
>anyone either with first hand experience with Bell or other
>such DSL service
>links provide some insight and/or recommendations?




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