[c-nsp] DS1 provisioning using IP Unnumbered vs /30s

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:48:10AM +0100, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:
> this name stays local to the router, and was/is required for Large-Scale
> Dial-out (LSDO) where the router performed an AAA/Radius request to
> retrieve dial information, and used the name for this.. 

Ah, so you put the route in like this:

  ip route 1.2.3.4 255.255.255.255 name customerX

and the router would do a radius-query to get the phone number, authentication
data, etc. to call up?  Cool :-)

> Dial - sigh - almost feels like legacy technology ;-)

Well, it came back in disguise... DSL, L2TP, ... :))

> But I agree, it's a nice way of documenting things :)

Indeed!

gert

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