[Dan Morphis]

Doing management over a separate PVC allows you to manage bridged mode
CPE's. It will also allow you to disable the pppoe credentials of the
previous customer, and not require the new customer factory reset the CPE
in order for the CPE to be reprovisioned.

Another reason for us doing the management over a separate PVC is
accounting. We serve an area where its incredibly expensive to bandwidth
and so we usage bill. Doing the management over a different PVC allows us
to keep the traffic for each separate, and bill our customers for only
their usage.

-dan

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Manny Veloso <manny.veloso at smartrg.com>
wrote:

>   Most of our customers just do management over the public network. There
> was one that had a PVC for management; I’m not sure why they did. Since
> CPEs do SSL, the thought is that it’s good enough.
>
>   --
> Manny Veloso
>  Sr. Solutions Engineer
> Smartrg.com
>
>   From: Dan Morphis <dan at milkcarton.com>
> Reply-To: Community support for GenieACS users <users at lists.genieacs.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 11:49 AM
> To: Community support for GenieACS users <users at lists.genieacs.com>
> Subject: Re:
>
>   We are going to use a separate management WAN, in private IP space, but
> one group of people want to do DNS names, while the other group wants IP.
> So I thought I would poll and see how others are doing it. Because of
> technical reasons, we have to use the IP - modems don't do dual DNS stacks
> and we don't want to resolve all DNS on the management interface.
>
>  As for DHCP option, I found a better way of doing this yesterday:
> # Define a custom option space for tr069 options
> option space tr069;
> option tr069.acs-server-url code 1 = text;
> vendor-option-space tr069;
> option tr069.acs-server-url “http://url/of/acs/server”;
>
>  On the few modems we've tried, this works perfectly. And this value
> overrides the ACS URL that is preconfigured into the CPE.
>
>  -dan
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Zaid Abdulla <zaid at genieacs.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015, at 07:35 PM, Dan Morphis wrote:
>> > I have a few questions about how other people are doing their CPE ACS
>> implementation.
>> >
>> > Are you using a single VCI/VPI and doing the management
>> over the public internet? Or do you have a separate VCI/VPI specifically
>>  for management? Do you have bridged mode modems connected to your ACS?
>> >
>> > If you are doing management over a separate interface, for the
>> management url, are you using DNS or hard-coded IP? Are you doing split DNS?
>>
>> I'd recommend using a separate WAN connection for management when
>> possible. As for using a domain name vs an IP, I prefer using IP because
>> then you deal with one less point of failure (i.e. DNS). Though I don't
>> have a strong opinion about that.
>>
>> > How are you assigning the ACS url to the CPE? Factory config, or DHCP
>> option 60[
>> http://blog.pierky.com/acs-url-configuration-via-dhcp-vendor-specific-information/
>> ]?
>>
>> I personally haven't used the DHCP option because I try to minimize the
>> number of client features I have to rely on for a smoother operation.
>> Perhaps my opinion will change when TR-069 is more wide spread and
>> client implementations improve.
>>
>> Zaid
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