[c-nsp] 7206 Config Help - DSL Aggregration

[Joel M Snyder]

You may or may not be able to urge the Cisco to do what you want, but you'd be 
much better off using RADIUS proxying through a smart RADIUS server.  Use a 
realm or domain (something like user at domain1 or user at domain2) and send 
everything to the same RADIUS server.  Then, that server can make the decision 
to proxy it onto any number of different servers.  You'll be more maintainable 
in the long-run, and probably more flexible as well, plus have a simpler 
debugging path.

The RADIUS server can throw in attributes that will define IP pools to assign 
from, which also simplifies things.  Cisco PPP ATM configuration is ugly enough 
as it is without making it more complex, I think.  We use 3640s for our DSL 
service and anything I can do to pull the config off the Cisco and into another 
system seems to increase reliability.  Although, of course, if you have a really 
totally studly OSS then you don't care, but that wouldn't be us.

jms
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