[cisco-nas] dhcp "like" ppp aaa - maybe silly question ;-)

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Aaron Leonard wrote:

>> >> These users are terminated (RFC1483 Routing/Bridging) in a dslam and
>> >> until now they just
>> >> get an ip through dhcp. We're trying to find a way in order to make
>> >> them "behave" like ppp
>> >> users with username/password authentication/accounting, per-user
>> >> attributes/qos, like we
>> >> do in all our other users through our radius servers.
>> >
>> >
>> > Well, the right answer (I suppose you know this already) is
>> > to switch from RFC-1483 to PPPoA or PPPoE.  I'm not sure what
>> > you can do with RFC-1483 ... maybe someone has some ideas?
> 
> 
>> I'm using RFC1483 and not PPPoX for this scenario, because we're using 
>> video multicasting
>> and we want to have 1 multicast stream per dslam. If we use PPPoX, 
>> then we'll have many
>> streams from the bras to the dslam, because the user ppp/ip will be 
>> terminated on the
>> bras. Of course there is the solution of an ip dslam and we are going 
>> to have a further
>> look at it.
> 
> 
> OK.  I guess the SESM/SSG stuff could be brought to bear here.  I'm not
> at all up on that stuff, though.
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/6400/prodlit/exdre_ds.htm
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/6400/prodlit/ssgw_ds.htm
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/solution/sesm/sesm_315/solgde/01intro.htm 
> 
> 

Well, SSG is a very sad story :-(

We tried to implement (7200 = SSG) it but the online CCO docs weren't helpfull enough, so 
we came to a dead end. We also contacted our local Cisco Account Manager/Partner for some 
extra help/docs but they also couldn't help us.

As it seems Cisco tries to "hide" a lot of SSG information, but we can't undertand why.
Or Cisco doesn't have a lot of experience with SSG !!!! Which i don't tend to believe 
easily ;-)))

This is one of the few cases that we were very dissapointed by CCO & Cisco :-(((


> Aaron
> 

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