I have used l2tpns in a cluster successfully in the past for this. It's capable of doing 65k sessions per cluster if you throw enough nodes at it.
The codebase is fairly stable and has been around for a long time but isn't really maintained anymore. We recently moved to the ASR1k platform for BRAS and had similar gripes over the licensing prices, but just so you know the licenses are honesty based on the ASR1k, the box will run at any license level once you accept the EULA, but don't expect TAC to be jumping to support you when your unlicensed features don't work. We ended up talking direct to a local Cisco rep and they were able to get us fully licensed boxes for the right price point. Regards, Patrick Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:32:17AM +0000, CiscoNSP List wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > > We have around 5 POPs that need to terminate DSL tails, so require LNS - > historically, we have done this on 7200's, now with 7200 basically EOLd, we > are looking at the ASR1K's, but the broadband licensing on them is heinously > expensive...Just wondering what others are using as an alternative? We make > very little margin on DSL tails, so if we had to go down the path of > ASR1K/Broadband license it would take a very very long time to recoup license > costs. > > > Ive had a hunt around for Linux-based options, but all the ones Ive found are > from quite a few years back, and dont appear to be under active development? > > > Thanks in advance for any other suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- Patrick Cole <[email protected]> Senior Network Specialist World Without Wires PO Box 869. Palm Beach, QLD, 4221 Ph: 0410 626 630 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
