We’re currently using PPPoE over VPLS to span our network and get customer traffic back to a PPPoE concentrator. This works well and has served us well, it’s simple and easy to deploy new distribution sites, that site connects to concentrator with VPLS and customer link is bridged into that with split-horizon. No worries
However we need to summarize at certain locations and do route manipulation. OSPF cannot do this without ABR’s. That’d be fine if OSPF didn’t have the ‘all areas must connect to area0’ rule, we need summarization and route manipulation in what is essentially multiple Area0’s and I don’t want to redesign the entire network. EIGRP would be absolutely perfect and IMO hit a sweet spot for a lot of the MikroTik customer base if they understood and used it properly. However since MikroTik isn’t going to implement it it won’t become a reality and i’m left with a predicament
VPLS doesn’t work over BGP because BGP doesn’t carry LDP. I need BGP to do route manipulation and our network scales in many directions so area0 is hard to pin down and likely requires large redesign down the track. As such PPPoE cannot be carried to a central point and I need to look at moving away from it and removing MPLS/VPLS from the network
MikroTik doesn’t seem to support IPoE, so is there a way to assign /32 addresses to customers that are geographically and logically separates in our network? Setting up lots of /30’s is a massive waste of IP addresses and not something we are going to do. We need customers to be on i.e. 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3 but they are in totally different area’s of the network