[c-nsp] PPPOE Filtering

[Robert Blayzor]

Paul Stewart wrote:
> The AP's don't understand VLAN'ing (Trango) but the AP's do understand
> pppoe filtering.  So, until earlier we figured we'd just flag the access
> points to only permit PPPOE traffic.  Now we find out that this is
> possible but we manually must connect to each subscriber radio and do it
> manually.... considering we have 500+ of them to do in the next couple
> of months I was hoping for a way to filter PPP packets on the routed
> interface facing the wireless access points.  The interface has to have
> an IP address on it still because the AP's are on the same physical
> segment and must be reachable for management.


Use two different router interfaces?  One for management, one for PPPoE
term?  Since the wireless sounds like one big bridge why not just use
another LAN port or router interface to use the numbered IP for
management while using another unnumbered router interface for PPPoE?

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