[113865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband Subscriber Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Wed Apr 22 13:24:42 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:25:55 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: Larry Smith <lesmith@ecsis.net>
In-Reply-To: <200904221107.42362.lesmith@ecsis.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As opposed to SNMP and a script that would shut the port down via SNMP
when the customer is disabled?
Larry Smith wrote:
> 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. I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch)
>> phone company several years ago. They weren't listening either. That
>> 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.
>
>
