[AusNOG] Experiences with PPPoE on MX5 or ASR1K

[Scott O'Brien]

Thanks all!

I had not seen that spreadsheet Diogo posted (Thanks, very helpful!).  So it looks like if I'm trying to do dynamic throttling on users (depending on the plan they're on) for the firewall policer per subscriber the MX5-80 can handle 2,000 dynamic profiles.  Has anyone ideas on the ASR1001-X?

Cheers,
Scott

On 19 Sep 2014, at 3:38 pm, Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott,
> 
> Have you checked this URL ?
> 
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/release-independent/junos/information-products/pathway-pages/subscriber-access/subscriber-management-scaling-values.xls
> 
> The MX handle many things at PFE level, including ppp keepalives.
> 
> Policer/filters per session will consume PFE memory independent of how much traffic is passig through. The basic the filters are, the more subs you will be able to have. Though, the limits are in that table (xls).
> 
> HTH
> 
> On Friday, 19 September 2014, Scott O'Brien <scott at scottyob.com> wrote:
> G'Day all,
> 
> I'm often lurking on list but don't often post.  I'm building a little setup soon for a small ISP overseas and am hoping to get opinions in peoples experience running a PPPoE server on either the MX5 or Cisco ASR1001-X routers.  I know that Juniper have had issues with PPPoE in the past with this platform but I believe that's all sorted now?  I can't seem to find much by the way of how many subscribers can be terminated on these platforms in spec sheets when traffic shaping would be being used on each session.  Would I be a little optimistic expecting upwards of 4K users on either of these boxes?
> 
> Before I start a war of not using PPPoE because straight IPoE is better and being used more and more, I was thinking it'd be much easier for a small scale shop to support this by simply extending a L2 domain for their customers (with appropriate L2 security) than having to worry about where to place route-points to get meaningful information in DHCP option 82 relays.
> 
> Hoping that someone who works a bit more with Juniper and this platform could answer if I'd be able to run a PPPoE server on the MX5 instead of forking out for the MX80 (not needing the interfaces or bandwidth )?  It looks like the licences (S-MX80-SA-FP, S-MX80-SSM-FP from https://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/topics/reference/general/mx-series-software-license-features.html) only lists the MX80 as the supported device?
> 
> I'm also wondering what peoples experiences are running either of these platforms on the border regarding receiving the full routing table possibly from a few different upstream providers.  I believe both these boxes can handle ~ 1.5 million routes?
> 
> I've not done much either by the way of hunting for distributors (either local or in the US) to start getting an idea on pricing yet.  Is this something this list could possibly help out with?  I know the charter says it's for exchanging technical information, so perhaps content regarding distributor contacts would be better suited to contact me off-list?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Scott O'Brien
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