Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

[Larry Smith <lesmith () ecsis net>]

Not disagreeing with you, just that SNMP "write" access is generally something
that admins keep either turned off or very, very tightly controlled.  In that 
context, how many "devices" (dslams, redbacks, etc) would have to 
be "touched" via SNMP to turn off a customer (or customers) versus simply
removing "their" entry from a central radius database.....

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Larry Smith
lesmith () ecsis net

On Wed April 22 2009 12:25, you wrote:
> As opposed to SNMP and a script that would shut the port down via SNMP
> when the customer is disabled?
>
> Larry Smith wrote:
> > On Wed April 22 2009 11:01, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> > > I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down
> > > the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs
> > > bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a
> > > customer.  I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch)
> > > phone company several years ago.  They weren't listening either.   That
> > > way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port
> > > administratively.
> >
> > Most likely because most RADIUS systems can be tied fairly easily
> > directly to the billing/payment system which enables and disables
> > (adds/removes) the customer from radius for payment/non-payment and
> > therefore does not require any "technical" support to turn on/off
> > customers.