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

[Mark Tees]

Agree, But what's the need for VRF for that? Address space/RFC1918?

On 25 May 2017 at 20:50, Nathan Brookfield
<Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
> VRF's with BGP running lower timers and you'll never look back, very
> reliable, fairly easy to implement even with your primary connection on
> PPPoE and the other on a routed VLAN.
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> Worse case you can just have your LNS act as a BRAS and still use PPPoE on
> your Layer 2 services.
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> Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
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> Subject: [AusNOG] High availability options for terminating point-to-point
> Ethernet (on Cisco CE)
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> 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.
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> Any ideas?
>
> -Matt
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Regards,

Mark L. Tees