[j-nsp] MX5 with bras?

[Gavin Henry]

> Thanks Skeeve…
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> We have had MX5/MX10/MX80 doing BRAS at customer deployments since around
> March – the 11.2R5.4 release has a number of nasty bugs and wish they would
> stop recommended it on their site… that was the second release in 11.2 we
> had ran at the time.  Then we went into two different 11.4R code releases
> and ran into some other issues and finally 11.4X27 came out and squashed
> most of those bugs (but not nearly all of them unfortunately).  The
> issues/bugs we ran into were mainly PPPOE related.
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> Also, we have seen a lot of similarity in the bugs on MX80 based hardware
> as we have seen in MX480/960 BRAS boxes – some different, some the same to
> date..
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> At the moment, we are faced with a few challenges on this platform .. one
> is the load on the box with under 4k users (quite high at times) and a more
> recent issue has re-surfaced involving PPPOE sessions not timing out
> properly.
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> YMMV of course…

This all doesn't sounds very encouraging to use Juniper for this.
Others have recommended the Cisco ASR1kx for this instead and keed
Juniper in the core :-(

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