[c-nsp] Boneheaded pppoe subscribers...

[Mike]

On 08/25/2015 08:10 PM, Rich Davies wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking forward to future responses on this as I have worked with 
> PPPoE in ATM environment however we used a service name even though it 
> did not really matter....   everyone was part of the same service name 
> in the DSL PAD-S offering during DSL modem sync/setup...
>
> I did some searching and found this maybe it might help you:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/bbdsl/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/bba-xe-3s-asr1000-book/bba-pppoe-pads-disable-ac-info.html#concept_6E07EF7A92C14D6A806EBE3E3EB1606E
>
>
> "Device(config)# pppoe pads disable-ac-info"
>
>
> Have not worked on ASR series however I think your B-RAS needs to 
> ignore the service name for inbound authentication (ie it could be 
> what you set which you said was null "" and also accept whatever 
> anyone else is trying to use at the DSL layer service offering.)
>
>
> Good luck, again hoping to see more responses to this.
>
>

It appears in my case that 'no service name' applied to my pppoe bba 
group global fixes this particular problem and now any service name does 
indeed work.

Mike-