PPPoE and IPoE logins
- PPPoE on physical ports, on VLANs and on whole VLAN ranges, for example one VLAN per OLT or per area.
- IPoE for networks that log in without PPPoE; nothing passes before the RADIUS login.
- Service-name rules per port and VLAN, shown in plain words by the CLI and the web panel.
- PPPoE MTU / MRU per port and VLAN, changed without disconnecting users who are online.
- FastPADO answers your known subscribers first when several servers share one access network.
RADIUS, billing and speed plans
Dandy vBNG works with standard RADIUS servers and the billing systems built on them. It sends authentication and accounting (start, interim, stop), accepts CoA and Disconnect requests from billing, and applies the download and upload speed from the RADIUS reply. Without RADIUS, local users can be defined on the box itself.
Speed groups give chosen destinations, such as an IX, a cache or gaming networks, or chosen ports, their own speed and priority.
When a user cannot connect
show subscriber with a user name, MAC address or IP tells the operator why a device is not online: no discovery seen, a refused service name, a RADIUS reject or a wrong password. The web Logs tab shows the same lines with the user names filled in.
From a router to a BNG
Routers used as PPPoE servers typically slow down at a few thousand sessions. Dandy vBNG spreads PPPoE over all CPU cores (Intel DDP on XL710 cards), tunes the NICs itself and supports up to 80,000 PPPoE users on one Intel Xeon server. See the hardware guide.