[j-nsp] M10i with bras?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> We have a few hundred PPPoE DSL customers from AT&T (old BellSouth
> land), delivered to us over an ATM OC-3 (they won't deliver over
> anything but ATM) carrying L2TP tunnels.  Right now, that's terminated
> on some old EOL equipment, and I'd like to get them on something newer.
> We have an M10i that is not doing a lot, and I think I have seen mention
> of using that platform as an LNS.
> 
> Any comments?  Is this something that would work, or is it a case of
> "here be dragons"?

Not commenting on L2TP specifically:

Please not that the BRAS functionality (e.g.  forwarding-options
dhcp-relay) is *not* supported on M7i/M10i. It *is* supported on MX.

Having said that: We ran DHCP relay on M7i for a while, and it worked
for us. 

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no