Hello All,
One of my current projects requires me to setup a number of remote sites that then funnel connections back to a number of PPP session aggregators.
Basically the clients at each POP will be connecting into the local MT routers with PPPOE clients. At present these sessions would then be terminated on an MT router and normal routing taking them off to the internet.
What I would like to be able to do is have the MT routers create tunnels back to one of a number of PPP aggregating routers via L2TP with the PPP sessions so that the final auth is done for the end user on the aggrigator. The reason for the aggregator is that some users will need to be using different bandwidth to the other clients.
As an example:
user1@home.com → MT → agg0
user2@isp.com → MT → agg1
Obviously if the l2tp tunnel could be dynamicly created ( via radius ) then it would be a bounus, however these can be statically created (nailed up).
Any ideas or suggestions on how to do this with MT routers would be appreciated.
regards,
Darrin
I too am looking for exactly the same solution. I would like to see a PPPoE handoff to L2TP which can be terminated on a 3rd party LNS. The preference is that the handoff is controlled via a static table, but based on the realm portion of the customer’s login name (i.e. @abc.com.au)
At the moment I use EoIP to do something similar. I have each vlan bridged onto a common EoIP interface which is terminated at another Mikrotik. This EoIP interface then has a PPPoE server listening.
But this only works if I have another Mikrotik at the other end. I am looking to setup a wholesale business model which means that the wholesale customer’s could have any type of PPPoE/LNS server.
Regards
Stephen
Yes, Agreed. the handoff should be via a static table.
I have been looking at doing the same thing with EoIP. the only concern I had with that is the number of broadcasts that would end up being in the central core where the EoIP tunnels terminated.
At this point we are looking at around 30 POPs each with a large number of clients. This could equate to a large number of broadcasts in the core area.
Have you had any broadcast storms or similar with the setup you have ?
regards,
Darrin
This is a good point.
At this point in time we have only a single Mikrotik EoIP client.