[c-nsp] LNS Alternatives

[raf]

I would also recommend to have a look at openl2tp.

Software LNS are a good solution if you only need basic features. If you 
want to separate user in vrf/context it was a bit more complicated, as 
you have to dedicate instance by vrf. but nothing impossible.
So the choice is as always, a relative expensive, but good hardware 
platform, or a home solution which need much more engineering.

Or you can mix the two approach, I got a friend who handle 10K of 
subscribers using a cluster of X c890 if I remember correctly.

Regards,

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Raphael Mazelier


Le 22/05/2016 à 03:52, Patrick Cole a écrit :
> 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
>
>