Chapter 32 PPPoE

32.2.1 Sub-Option Format

There are two types of sub-option: “Agent Circuit ID Sub-option” and “Agent Remote ID Sub-option”. They have the following formats.

Table 103 PPPoE IA Circuit ID Sub-option Format: User-defined String

SubOpt

Length

Value

 

 

 

0x01

N

String

(1 byte)

(1 byte)

(63 bytes)

 

 

 

Table 104 PPPoE IA Remote ID Sub-option Format

SubOpt

Length

Value

 

 

 

0x02

N

MAC Address or String

(1 byte)

(1 byte)

(63 bytes)

 

 

 

The 1 in the first field identifies this as an Agent Circuit ID sub-option and 2 identifies this as an Agent Remote ID sub-option. The next field specifies the length of the field. The Switch takes the Circuit ID string you manually configure for a VLAN on a port as the highest priority and the Circuit ID string for a port as the second priority. In addition, the Switch puts the PPPoE client’s MAC address into the Agent Remote ID Sub-option if you do not specify any user-defined string.

32.2.1.1 Flexible Circuit ID Syntax with Identifier String and Variables

If you do not configure a Circuit ID string for a VLAN on a specific port or for a specific port, the Switch adds the user-defined identifier string and variables into the Agent Circuit ID Sub-option. The variables can be the slot ID of the PPPoE client, the port number of the PPPoE client and/or the VLAN ID on the PPPoE packet.

The identifier-string, slot ID, port number and VLAN ID are separated from each other by a pound key (#), semi-colon (;), period (.), comma (,), forward slash (/) or space. An Agent Circuit ID Sub-option example is “Switch/07/0123” and indicates the PPPoE packets come from a PPPoE client which is connected to the Switch’s port 7 and belong to VLAN 123.

Table 105 PPPoE IA Circuit ID Sub-option Format: Using Identifier String and Variables

SubOpt Length

Value

0x01

N

Identifier

(1 byte)

(1 byte)

String

(53 byte)

 

 

 

 

 

delimiter

Slot ID

delimiter

Port No

delimiter

VLAN ID

(1 byte)

(1 byte)

(1 byte)

(2 byte)

(1 byte)

(4 bytes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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