[113862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband Subscriber Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Smith)
Wed Apr 22 12:08:10 2009
From: Larry Smith <lesmith@ecsis.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:07:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: <49EF3F5D.6060604@xyonet.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed April 22 2009 11:01, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down
> the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs
> bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a
> customer. =A0I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch)
> phone company several years ago. =A0They weren't listening either. =A0 Th=
at
> way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.
Most likely because most RADIUS systems can be tied fairly easily directly
to the billing/payment system which enables and disables (adds/removes)
the customer from radius for payment/non-payment and therefore does
not require any "technical" support to turn on/off customers.
=2D-=20
Larry Smith
lesmith@ecsis.net
