[j-nsp] MX304 - Edge Router

[Eric Harrison]

Yes indeed having dhcp-relay by default trigger scale-l2tp -- a licensed
subscriber management feature -- is quite annoying.

"set forwarding-options dhcp-relay forward-only" will turn off that
licensing requirement.  IIRC there were scalpel knobs to accomplish the
same, we opted for the hammer knob.



On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:25 AM Chuck Anderson via juniper-nsp <
juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 03:12:29PM +0200, Mark Tinka via juniper-nsp wrote:
> > On 10/25/23 10:57, Sebastian Wiesinger via juniper-nsp wrote:
> > > Yeah it depends. Our MX204 also needed licenses for subscriber
> > > managment. Some options would produce a license warning and some other
> > > stuff just failed silently which was worse. Also noone at Juniper
> > > seemed to know WHICH licenses we needed for our usecase.
> > >
> > > In the end our license list looked like this:
> > >
> > > subscriber-accounting
> > > subscriber-authentication
> > > subscriber-address-assignment
> > > subscriber-vlan
> > > subscriber-ip
> > > scale-subscriber
> > > scale-l2tp
> > > l2tp-inline-lns
> > >
> > > So yeah.. that wasn't a nice experience at all.
> >
> > Subscriber Management has always required real licenses on the MX since
> > it started shipping BNG code.
> >
> > You got 1,000 subscribers as standard, and then needed an enforceable
> > license after that.
>
> This caused us heartburn for our Campus LAN when we upgraded as we had
> been using "forwarding-options helpers bootp" and were told that it
> was deprecated and we needed to move to "forwarding-options
> dhcp-relay" which is a BNG feature that requires a subscriber
> license--a ridiculous requirement for a Campus LAN.  It turns out that
> "helpers bootp" still worked, and may still work today, but I'm no
> longer working in that environment so I'm not sure.
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