[c-nsp] single static ip address for customer(s)

[Seth Mattinen]

On 6/22/12 1:03 PM, Ross Halliday wrote:
> This is an ideal use case for PPPoE. We just return RADIUS attribute Framed-IP-Address to the access concentrator and off they go! As long as a subscriber can get to PPPoE they can get that IP... doesn't even need to be the same service type. IP allocation is as easy as a drop-down menu that selects from a block of reserved IPs.
> 
> Personally I've never understood why DSL providers don't use PPPoE. DHCP just seems like so much hassle, even with Option 82
> 

AT&T handed off a PVC per DSL customer at the last ISP I worked at years
ago, so dialers weren't strictly necessary. They did a subint per
customer on the router with the ATM circuit.

~Seth