[c-nsp] LNS Alternatives

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Cheers for the reply/info mate - Yes, the licenses are just insane on the ASR1K's for broadband.....mind boggling.

Im just not 100% clear on the licenses on them.....We have ASR1006's and ASR1001's(and 1001-Xs).....in the lab, the ASR1006 just seems to "work" as an LNS....i.e. you dont have accept an EULA?  Im assuming it is different on the smaller 1Ks, as to unlock features, you have to install PAKs?

So - Chassis based 1Ks, you can basically use as an LNS without doing anything....but its not "legal" and you wont get support

But on the non-chassis based 1Ks (1001's), you have to unlock a feature by accepting a EULA? (I dont have access to any of our 1001's atm....but I thought you had to install the broadband license on them, to unlock that feature?)

Ive asked this question of our Cisco AM, and even he has no idea....lol, they make it so simple :)

Cheers

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From: Patrick Cole <z at amused.net>
Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2016 11:52 AM
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Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] LNS Alternatives

I have used l2tpns in a cluster successfully in the past for this.
It's capable of doing 65k sessions per cluster if you throw enough
nodes at it.

The codebase is fairly stable and has been around for a long time
but isn't really maintained anymore.

We recently moved to the ASR1k platform for BRAS and had similar
gripes over the licensing prices, but just so you know the licenses
are honesty based on the ASR1k, the box will run at any license
level once you accept the EULA, but don't expect TAC to be jumping
to support you when your unlicensed features don't work.

We ended up talking direct to a local Cisco rep and they were able
to get us fully licensed boxes for the right price point.

Regards,

Patrick

Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:32:17AM +0000, CiscoNSP List wrote:


> Hi Everyone,
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> We have around 5 POPs that need to terminate DSL tails, so require LNS - historically, we have done this on 7200's, now with 7200 basically EOLd, we are looking at the ASR1K's, but the broadband licensing on them is heinously expensive...Just wondering what others are using as an alternative?  We make very little margin on DSL tails, so if we had to go down the path of ASR1K/Broadband license it would take a very very long time to recoup license costs.
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> Ive had a hunt around for Linux-based options, but all the ones Ive found are from quite a few years back, and dont appear to be under active development?
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> Thanks in advance for any other suggestions.
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