[c-nsp] ASR opinions..

Rinse Kloek rinse.kloek at isp.solcon.nl
Wed Aug 24 15:15:09 EDT 2011


Is it planned to make more than one member link be supported in IOS-XE 
3.4 with MLPoE ?

On 22-8-2011 15:55, Andrew K. wrote:
> We were having issues using an ASR1002-F and ASR1002 as an LNS 
> termination L2TP/PTA sessions.
>
> This has been fixed in the latest IOS release, the bugID for this 
> issue was CSCtj44098.
>
> An other issue with the ASR as LNS is PPPoE Multilink.
>
> IOS-XE 3.4 did introduce MLPoE support, but only one member link is 
> supported at this time.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ios_xe/wan/configuration/guide/wan_cfg_mlppp_conn_xe_ps11174_TSD_Products_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html#wp1200544 
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8/22/2011 12:55 AM, John Elliot wrote:
>>> If you mean FHRP's like HSRP, VRRP or GLBP, no. But I
>>> suspect those should be pretty stock features with nothing
>>> major to worry about.
>>
>> Cheers - hopefully someone has a couple of 1000's setup in a 
>> redundant fashion(w/ hsrp etc) that can comment  ;)
>>
>>> Yes, you should be fine if you're running the latest code.
>>> However, I now remember that we were unable to run QoS
>>> (ingress marking) on an LACP interface. Cisco call the
>>> feature GEC QoS, which makes you wonder if the problem will
>>> re-surface when doing 10Gbps LACP. At any rate, Cisco said
>>> this should be available in IOS XE 3.4S. Suffice it to say,
>>> we haven't tested this yet. That said, Cisco said QoS
>>> capabilities on LACP sub-interfaces was supported - weird.
>>>
>> Thanks - Yes we run portchans, so portchan subints is where we apply 
>> qos policies..so egress is ok, ingress is not(currently)?
>>
>>> One other thing that wasn't available for us at the time was
>>> MPLS-TE support on LACP links. We swapped these routers out
>>> for ASR9000's, so don't know whether MPLS-TE on LACP links
>>> is now possible.
>>>
>> Not currently doing any TE, so hopefully if we ever do, it will be 
>> available...
>>
>>
>>> Like I said, the main problems with the ASR1000 is the
>>> software.
>>>
>>>>> Netflow is also something we utilise on the existing
>>>>> 7200's - asr's netflow functional?
>>> We're running FNF on the ASR1002's. No major drama, but then
>>> again we're just doing trending and TE management.
>>
>> We use it for billing, so pretty important that it works well  ;)
>> Thanks again Mark - really appreciate it.
>>
>>
>>
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