Hey Nathan, thanks for your advice!
I was thinking the same thing about not being reachable. Already confirmed I am
getting LAC prefixes over BGP and advertising my loopback IP.
However – just to be clear I eventually figured out that as long as I ping with
a source IP of the loopback address (
We don’t use SLC for NBN but the only other thing I would usually do is have a
‘terminate-from’ statement with the hostname that there LAC is sending for the
tunnel, for example:
terminate-from hostname SL-LAC-SY1
Or whatever they have supplied.
Nathan Brookfield
General Manager
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“I couldn’t even ping any LAC addresses with the source IP of my BGP interface”.
Okay that says a lot and if you’re not getting ICMP responses, I’d say the
LAC’s can’t reach your LNS’s loopback which is either going to be a BGP
advertisement issue from your end ‘Check your loop is visible in as
