[j-nsp] MX5 with bras?

[Xu Hu]

ASR1K can be used for BRAS?


2012/12/8 Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretec.co.uk>

> > Thanks Skeeve…
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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..
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 :-(
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
>
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