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PPPoE lockups around 200 users connected

Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:49 am

Any and all help sure would be appreciated...

I have been experiencing numerous lockups lately. I have seen it happen on all of the recent OS versions, including 2.9.14 that I am currently running.

The symptoms:
Everything works perfectly until approximatly 200 users are logged on (meaning they show up in the MT Interface list). Then suddenly...
Users attempting to log on can not.
Users already connected suddenly can not pass any data
SNMP traffic graphs show a sudden drop in throughput
The only recourse I have found is to reboot the MT

The configuration:
All users connecting over copper DSL, running either RasPPPoE on their PCs, of their DSL modems are configured as routers and they perform the PPPoE logon.
The DSLAM is connected via ethernet to an ethernet interface on the MT router.
The MT PPPoE server is using radius for authentication against a remote radius server.
 
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Re: PPPoE lockups around 200 users connected

Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:47 am

Doesn't look like a RADIUS-Problem to me, but did you check the RADIUS-request-response traffic?

(i'm going to build a similar solution, therefore i'm interested in problems with the PPPoE-server

update: as odie wrote, there is a 200-PPPoE-user limit depending on the licence-level.)
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:01 am

what license level do you use ?
what kind of hardware ?
 
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Doh!

Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:53 pm

Whenever this happens, customers start calling in and screaming, so my support staff race over to the MT and reboot it. I finaly set up remote logging so I could see the logs at the time this happens, even if they reboot the MT before I can look.

And sure enough, there they were. Log after log of "200 limit exceeded". Boy, I don't remember that limit on PPPoE connections when I bought the MT. Is this something that came with one of the updates? I see a mention on the web site that as of version 2.10, PPPoE will be limited to a single connection for level 3 licenses! Ouch, that would have hurt me.

So it looks like my only recourse is to buy a level 6 license which is unlimited PPPoE connections. I have an email into MT now for the quickest way to upgrade my license, this is really frustrating my customers until I can get this resolved.

Thanks for your help!
-Alan
 
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:30 am

We are using level 5, and it gives you 500 PPPoE connections in the same time. True, we will soon go for L6 :)
 
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Re: Doh!

Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:41 am

Whenever this happens, customers start calling in and screaming, so my support staff race over to the MT and reboot it.
You should have at least 2 MT's in place. The PPPoE protocol is Layer 2 ethernet and not layer 3 IP based. Thus it is inherently simple to add a second box for load sharing redundancy...

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