[135535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PPPOE vs DHCP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Jan 26 11:34:04 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:33:58 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
In-Reply-To: <23842845.31296056161980.JavaMail.root@jennyfur.pelican.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/26/2011 9:36 AM, Tim Franklin wrote:
>> Terminating PPPoE generally isn't much different than terminating
>> VLANs. In Juniper world, it requires the right equipment. Cisco
>> world, it's not generally a big deal.
>
> Unless, for example, you already sunk a chunk of change into Cisco 10Ks, and now want IPv6 on your PPPoE. Not that I'm becomming increasingly bitter about that platform or anything...
>
10K isn't supporting IPv6 on PPPoE? I thought the 10K specialized in
utilizing the IOS SR line. I've played with PPPoE and bridging on the
7200s mostly. I need to kick up an ASR, as I hear it's specialized code
line has much better IPv6 support than IOS SR. both XR/XE codes seem to
be much more richly featured, especially for radius backending DHCP.
Jack
