[c-nsp] Cisco 7301 w/ PA-A3 Max VC or Sessions

[Steve Wright]

Hi all,

We use a 7301 with a PA-A3, and 1Gb memory which acts as an LNS for about
3500 PPPoA sessions.

I've heard that the PA-A3 can only deal with about 4000 sessions, and have
been looking into this, and it appears that it can only deal with 4096 VC's.

However, for our L2TP Termination, we have 2 VC's setup.. and I am unsure of
how this terminates the sessions onto the PA-A3, and whether each session is
taking up 1 VC, or whether their is another figure somewhere that can tell
me how many sessions I can terminate, or whether I am just limited by the
amount of bandwidth the router can push/ is available?

However, I have been unable to determine a final answer to how many sessions
we can terminate, and am wondering if anyone can help?

TIA,

Cheers,
Steve Wright