Yes indeed having dhcp-relay by default trigger scale-l2tp -- a licensed subscriber management feature -- is quite annoying.
"set forwarding-options dhcp-relay forward-only" will turn off that licensing requirement. IIRC there were scalpel knobs to accomplish the same, we opted for the hammer knob. On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 6:25 AM Chuck Anderson via juniper-nsp < juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 03:12:29PM +0200, Mark Tinka via juniper-nsp wrote: > > On 10/25/23 10:57, Sebastian Wiesinger via juniper-nsp wrote: > > > Yeah it depends. Our MX204 also needed licenses for subscriber > > > managment. Some options would produce a license warning and some other > > > stuff just failed silently which was worse. Also noone at Juniper > > > seemed to know WHICH licenses we needed for our usecase. > > > > > > In the end our license list looked like this: > > > > > > subscriber-accounting > > > subscriber-authentication > > > subscriber-address-assignment > > > subscriber-vlan > > > subscriber-ip > > > scale-subscriber > > > scale-l2tp > > > l2tp-inline-lns > > > > > > So yeah.. that wasn't a nice experience at all. > > > > Subscriber Management has always required real licenses on the MX since > > it started shipping BNG code. > > > > You got 1,000 subscribers as standard, and then needed an enforceable > > license after that. > > This caused us heartburn for our Campus LAN when we upgraded as we had > been using "forwarding-options helpers bootp" and were told that it > was deprecated and we needed to move to "forwarding-options > dhcp-relay" which is a BNG feature that requires a subscriber > license--a ridiculous requirement for a Campus LAN. It turns out that > "helpers bootp" still worked, and may still work today, but I'm no > longer working in that environment so I'm not sure. > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > -- Eric Harrison Network Services Cascade Technology Alliance / Multnomah Education Service District office: 503-257-1554 cell: 971-998-6249 NOC 503-257-1510 _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
