Hi,
I would like to create a very basic setup. I have a remote LAN that I would like to do PPPOE sessions on using a RB450 but I would like to do all of the PPPOE authentification at a central location.
Basically the User Manager would be connected to the RB450 over a licensed wireless link. Port 1 on the RB450 would be the gatway back to the User Manager and Port 5 would be the port connected into the LAN with all the PPPOE clients on it.
I have RTF and learned a lot about PPPOE and successfully done PPPOE on the RB450 itself.
But if I have the User manager doing all the PPPOE authentification, how does it hear the requests on port 5 of the RB450? This part has me stumped.
Basic routing. If you get User Manager involved in PPPoE, you’re doing RADIUS. The PPPoE server on port 5 gets configured as a RADIUS client with a RADIUS server IP address of the User Manager machine. It dispatches the packet, the router looks at the routing table and finds that the User Manager is connected via port 1 and routes the packet out that port.
On a test set up I have the 450 connected to my internet connection and User Manager installed on it. Then connected to that viat cat5 is an old rb500 I have.I have the ppoe server running on port 2 of the rb500 and port 1 is connected back to the rb450 Both box’s can ping one another but I can not get the user manager to authenticate any of the pppoe clients connected to the rb500.
Can anyone give me some pointers?
OK, I eventually got this going. I have the rb450 set up as the user manager and its authentication the rb500 which has a pppoe server set up on it.
I have a few questions though…
What spec of a machine should I really be running the User manger on at the core? I Intend on having the user manager authentication 10, 20 maybe even 30 rb450’s?
I have a limited amount of public ip’s which would be sitting on the wan side of the User Manager. I do not want to give out publics to everyone, but only to those who really need them, everyone else would be on a pool of privates set up on the User Manager.
Is it possible to specify a particular Public IP with a PPPOE USER/PASS using the User Manager and have it hand out the PUBLIC IP to the PPPOE SERVER at the other end of our network?
Is there anyway of backing up the users set up in the User manager?
Should I use RIP or just set up static routes on the rb450’s? The rb450’s will be communicating with the User Manager through a third party wireless bridge network.