[AusNOG] High availability options for terminating point-to-point Ethernet (on Cisco CE)

[Sam Silvester]

Hi Matt,

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Matt Selbst <matt.j.selbst at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hoping for some advice. What is everyone doing for
> terminating point-to-point Ethernet services like AAPT's e-Line in a high
> availability environment? Cisco environment.
>
> With PPPoE, high availability was much easier as you could just have
> multiple LNS's and failover easily when the client would re-auth. With
> terminating a VLAN handoff on a /30 or /31 it makes HA much harder. If the
> customer edge router dies, failover seems pretty hard. VRRP doesn't seem to
> be an option especially with hundreds of customer sub-interfaces.
>

Do you mean HA on the customer side or on your side?

e.g. I assume you mean you want to protect against when your aggregation
router dies, as obviously the P2P Ethernet service is kind of a single
point of failure in and of itself, as is the CPE...
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