To configure PPP hosts on a local user database

Steps
 
1 

Choose Manage→Residential Subscribers from the NFM-P main menu. The Manage Residential Subscribers form opens.

2 

Choose Local User Database (Local User DB) and click Search.

3 

Select a local user database entry and click Properties. The Local User Database (Edit) form opens.

4 

Click on the PPP tab and configure the Match Type PPP parameters.

You cannot set two parameters to the same value.

5 

Click on the Masks tab.

  1. Click Create or select an existing PPPmask entry and click Properties. The Local User Database PPP Mask form opens.

  2. Configure the required parameters.

    You must configure the Mask Type parameter before you configure the remaining parameters.

  3. Save your changes and close the form.

6 

Click on the Hosts tab.

  1. Click Create or select an existing host entry and click Properties. The Local User Database PPP Host (Create|Edit) form opens.

  2. Configure the required parameters.

  3. Select a diameter application policy.

  4. Select a subscriber pre-authentication policy.

  5. Select a subscriber authentication policy.

  6. Select a diameter authentication policy.

  7. Select a RIP policy.

  8. Select a user database.

  9. In the MSAP Defaults panel, select the following objects:

    • MSAP policy

    • MSAP service ID

    • MSAP group interface

    You can also specify an MSAP group interface by manually typing its name. If the port ID is not included in the typed name, set one of the following parameters to Port ID, depending on whether the port ID is to be the prefix or suffix of the group interface name:

    • MSAP Group Interface Prefix

    • MSAP Group Interface Suffix

  10. Select a RADIUS accounting policy and a duplicate RADIUS accounting policy.

  11. Configure access loop parameters for the PPP host, if required.

    The Circuit ID parameter must be configured if the Circuit ID Type parameter is set to ASCII. The Remote ID parameter must be configured if the Remote ID Type parameter is set to ASCII.

  12. Configure IPv6 lease times for the PPP host, if required.

    The Valid Life and Preferred Life parameters can be set to infinite by placing check marks in the Infinite check boxes.

7 

Click on the Address tab.

  1. Configure the required parameters.

  2. If you configure IPv6 parameters, select an IPv6 SLAAC prefix pool.

    You can also manually type an IPv6 SLAAC prefix pool name.

8 

Click on the Host Identification tab.

  1. Configure up to three of the following parameter groups:

    • Circuit ID

    • MAC Address

    • Remote ID

    • Service Name

    • SAP ID

    • Derived ID

  2. Configure the parameters in the User panel.

  3. If one of the match criteria specified in Step 4 is Encapsulation Tag Range, configure the Type parameter.

    Configure the following parameters to define the outer encapsulation range:

    • Outer Start Value (Tag1)

    • Outer End Value (Tag1)

  4. If you set the Type parameter to Q in Q, configure the following parameters to define the inner encapsulation range:

    • Inner Start Value (Tag2)

    • Inner End Value (Tag2)

9 

Click on the Identification Strings tab.

  1. Configure the Option Number parameter. The form displays additional parameters.

  2. Configure the required identification strings parameters.

10 

Click on the L2TP tab to select a tunnel group.

L2TP configuration is required on an NE that has the LAC role if RADIUS authentication is not used for PPP clients.

11 

Click on the Options tab.

12 

To configure IPv4 options, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Create or select an existing IPv4 option entry and click Properties. The Local User Database DHCP IPv4 Option (Create|Edit) form opens.

  2. Configure the Option parameter.

  3. Configure any additional parameters that appear. The configurable parameters vary, depending on the Option parameter value.

  4. Save your changes and close the form.

13 

Click on the IPv6 tab to configure IPv6 options.

  1. Click Create or select an existing IPv4 option entry and click Properties. The Local User Database DHCP IPv6 Option (Create|Edit) form opens.

  2. Configure the required IPv6 address parameters.

  3. Save your changes and close the form.

14 

Click on the Access Loop tab.

  1. Click Create or select an existing access loop entry and click Properties. The Access Loop (Create|Edit) form opens.

  2. Configure the required parameters

    If the Encap Offset Mode parameter is set to Auto, you must configure the Encap Offset parameter.

  3. Save your changes and close the form.

15 

Click on the To Client Options tab to configure relay to client options for the PPP host.

  1. Click Create or select an existing options instance and click Properties. The To Client Options (Create|Edit) form opens.

  2. Configure the required parameters.

  3. Configure any additional parameters that appear in the Option Value panel. The configurable parameters vary, depending on the Type parameter value.

  4. Save your changes and close the form.

16 

Save your changes and close the forms.

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