PPPoE Server
VyOS utilizes accel-ppp to provide PPPoE server functionality. It can be used with local authentication or a connected RADIUS server.
Note
Please be aware, due to an upstream bug, config changes/commits will restart the ppp daemon and will reset existing PPPoE connections from connected users, in order to become effective.
Configuration
First steps
Use this command to set a name for this PPPoE-server access concentrator.
Use this command to define whether your PPPoE clients will locally authenticate in your VyOS system or in RADIUS server.
Use this command to configure the username and the password of a locally configured user.
Use this command to define the interface the PPPoE server will use to listen for PPPoE clients.
Use this command to configure the local gateway IP address.
Client Address Pools
To automatically assign the client an IP address as tunnel endpoint, a client IP pool is needed. The source can be either RADIUS or a local subnet or IP range definition.
Once the local tunnel endpoint set service pppoe-server gateway-address
'10.1.1.2' has been defined, the client IP pool can be either defined
as a range or as subnet using CIDR notation. If the CIDR notation is
used, multiple subnets can be setup which are used sequentially.
Client IP address via IP range definition
Use this command to define the first IP address of a pool of addresses to be given to PPPoE clients. It must be within a /24 subnet.
Use this command to define the last IP address of a pool of addresses to be given to PPPoE clients. It must be within a /24 subnet.
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool start '10.1.1.100'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool stop '10.1.1.111'
Client IP subnets via CIDR notation
Use this command for every pool of client IP addresses you want to define. The addresses of this pool will be given to PPPoE clients. You must use CIDR notation and it must be within a /24 subnet.
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool subnet '10.1.1.0/24'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool subnet '10.1.2.0/24'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool subnet '10.1.3.0/24'
RADIUS based IP pools (Framed-IP-Address)
To use a radius server, you need to switch to authentication mode RADIUS and then configure it.
Use this command to configure the IP address and the shared secret key of your RADIUS server. You can have multiple RADIUS servers configured if you wish to achieve redundancy.
set service pppoe-server access-concentrator 'ACN'
set service pppoe-server authentication mode 'radius'
set service pppoe-server authentication radius server 10.1.100.1 key 'secret'
set service pppoe-server interface 'eth1'
set service pppoe-server gateway-address '10.1.1.2'
RADIUS provides the IP addresses in the example above via Framed-IP-Address.
RADIUS sessions management DM/CoA
Use this command to configure Dynamic Authorization Extensions to RADIUS so that you can remotely disconnect sessions and change some authentication parameters.
set service pppoe-server authentication radius dynamic-author key 'secret123'
set service pppoe-server authentication radius dynamic-author port '3799'
set service pppoe-server authentication radius dynamic-author server '10.1.1.2'
Example, from radius-server send command for disconnect client with username test
root@radius-server:~# echo "User-Name=test" | radclient -x 10.1.1.2:3799
disconnect secret123
You can also use another attributes for identify client for disconnect, like Framed-IP-Address, Acct-Session-Id, etc. Result commands appears in log.
show log | match Disconnect*
Example for changing rate-limit via RADIUS CoA.
echo "User-Name=test,Filter-Id=5000/4000" | radclient 10.1.1.2:3799 coa
secret123
Filter-Id=5000/4000 (means 5000Kbit down-stream rate and 4000Kbit up-stream rate) If attribute Filter-Id redefined, replace it in RADIUS CoA request.
Automatic VLAN Creation
VLAN’s can be created by Accel-ppp on the fly via the use of a Kernel module named vlan_mon, which is monitoring incoming vlans and creates the necessary VLAN if required and allowed. VyOS supports the use of either VLAN ID’s or entire ranges, both values can be defined at the same time for an interface.
When configured, PPPoE will create the necessary VLANs when required. Once the user session has been cancelled and the VLAN is not needed anymore, VyOS will remove it again.
set service pppoe-server interface eth3 vlan-id 100
set service pppoe-server interface eth3 vlan-id 200
set service pppoe-server interface eth3 vlan-range 500-1000
set service pppoe-server interface eth3 vlan-range 2000-3000
Bandwidth Shaping
Bandwidth rate limits can be set for local users or RADIUS based attributes.
For Local Users
Use this command to configure a data-rate limit to PPPOoE clients for traffic download or upload. The rate-limit is set in kbit/sec.
set service pppoe-server access-concentrator 'ACN'
set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username foo password 'bar'
set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username foo rate-limit download '20480'
set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username foo rate-limit upload '10240'
set service pppoe-server authentication mode 'local'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool start '10.1.1.100'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool stop '10.1.1.111'
set service pppoe-server name-server '10.100.100.1'
set service pppoe-server name-server '10.100.200.1'
set service pppoe-server interface 'eth1'
set service pppoe-server gateway-address '10.1.1.2'
Once the user is connected, the user session is using the set limits and can be displayed via ‘show pppoe-server sessions’.
show pppoe-server sessions
ifname | username | ip | calling-sid | rate-limit | state | uptime | rx-bytes | tx-bytes
-------+----------+------------+-------------------+-------------+--------+----------+----------+----------
ppp0 | foo | 10.1.1.100 | 00:53:00:ba:db:15 | 20480/10240 | active | 00:00:11 | 214 B | 76 B
For RADIUS users
The current attribute ‘Filter-Id’ is being used as default and can be setup within RADIUS:
Filter-Id=2000/3000 (means 2000Kbit down-stream rate and 3000Kbit up-stream rate)
The command below enables it, assuming the RADIUS connection has been setup and is working.
Use this command to enable bandwidth shaping via RADIUS.
Other attributes can be used, but they have to be in one of the dictionaries in /usr/share/accel-ppp/radius.
Load Balancing
Use this command to enable the delay of PADO (PPPoE Active Discovery Offer) packets, which can be used as a session balancing mechanism with other PPPoE servers.
set service pppoe-server pado-delay 50 sessions '500'
set service pppoe-server pado-delay 100 sessions '1000'
set service pppoe-server pado-delay 300 sessions '3000'
In the example above, the first 499 sessions connect without delay. PADO packets will be delayed 50 ms for connection from 500 to 999, this trick allows other PPPoE servers send PADO faster and clients will connect to other servers. Last command says that this PPPoE server can serve only 3000 clients.
IPv6
IPv6 client’s prefix assignment
Use this comand to set the IPv6 address pool from which a PPPoE client will get an IPv6 prefix of your defined length (mask) to terminate the PPPoE endpoint at their side. The mask length can be set from 48 to 128 bit long, the default value is 64.
IPv6 Prefix Delegation
Use this command to configure DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (RFC3633). You will have to set your IPv6 pool and the length of the delegation prefix. From the defined IPv6 pool you will be handing out networks of the defined length (delegation-prefix). The length of the delegation prefix can be set from 32 to 64 bit long.
Maintenance mode
For network maintenance, it’s a good idea to direct users to a backup server so that the primary server can be safely taken out of service. It’s possible to switch your PPPoE server to maintenance mode where it maintains already established connections, but refuses new connection attempts.
Checking connections
Use this command to locally check the active sessions in the PPPoE server.
show pppoe-server sessions
ifname | username | ip | calling-sid | rate-limit | state | uptime | rx-bytes | tx-bytes
-------+----------+------------+-------------------+-------------+--------+----------+----------+----------
ppp0 | foo | 10.1.1.100 | 00:53:00:ba:db:15 | 20480/10240 | active | 00:00:11 | 214 B | 76 B
Per default the user session is being replaced if a second authentication request succeeds. Such session requests can be either denied or allowed entirely, which would allow multiple sessions for a user in the latter case. If it is denied, the second session is being rejected even if the authentication succeeds, the user has to terminate its first session and can then authentication again.
vyos@# set service pppoe-server session-control
Possible completions:
disable Disables session control
deny Deny second session authorization
Examples
IPv4
The example below uses ACN as access-concentrator name, assigns an address from the pool 10.1.1.100-111, terminates at the local endpoint 10.1.1.1 and serves requests only on eth1.
set service pppoe-server access-concentrator 'ACN'
set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username foo password 'bar'
set service pppoe-server authentication mode 'local'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool start '10.1.1.100'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool stop '10.1.1.111'
set service pppoe-server interface eth1
set service pppoe-server gateway-address '10.1.1.2'
set service pppoe-server name-server '10.100.100.1'
set service pppoe-server name-server '10.100.200.1'
Dual-Stack IPv4/IPv6 provisioning with Prefix Delegation
The example below covers a dual-stack configuration via pppoe-server.
set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username test password 'test'
set service pppoe-server authentication mode 'local'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool start '192.168.0.1'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool stop '192.168.0.10'
set service pppoe-server client-ipv6-pool delegate '2001:db8:8003::/48' delegation-prefix '56'
set service pppoe-server client-ipv6-pool prefix '2001:db8:8002::/48' mask '64'
set service pppoe-server ppp-options ipv6 allow
set service pppoe-server name-server '10.1.1.1'
set service pppoe-server name-server '2001:db8:4860::8888'
set service pppoe-server interface 'eth2'
set service pppoe-server gateway-address '10.100.100.1'
The client, once successfully authenticated, will receive an IPv4 and an IPv6 /64 address to terminate the pppoe endpoint on the client side and a /56 subnet for the clients internal use.
vyos@pppoe-server:~$ sh pppoe-server sessions
ifname | username | ip | ip6 | ip6-dp | calling-sid | rate-limit | state | uptime | rx-bytes | tx-bytes
--------+----------+-------------+--------------------------+---------------------+-------------------+------------+--------+----------+----------+----------
ppp0 | test | 192.168.0.1 | 2001:db8:8002:0:200::/64 | 2001:db8:8003::1/56 | 00:53:00:12:42:eb | | active | 00:00:49 | 875 B | 2.1 KiB