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

[Matt Selbst]

Yes indeed I'm talking about the aggregation router failing.

Perhaps clustering multiple chassis although I don't know any Cisco agg
routers that can do that.


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Sam Silvester <sam.silvester at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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