VIAVI TestCenter: Why few DHCPv6-PD sessions are not coming over PPPoE?

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VIAVI TestCenter: Why few DHCPv6-PD sessions are not coming over PPPoE?
Issue: • Configured 4 device blocks with 4000 PPPoE/DHCPv6-PD sessions.  • All the PPPoE sessions came up successfully; 12,613 DHCPv6-PD sessions bound and 3387 sessions failed. • As a workaround, bringing down the DHCPv6-PD session followed by the PPPoE session and again restart both the protocols helped in bringing up all the DHCPv6-PD sessions. Resolution: • The 4 device blocks had same starting MAC address but were in different VLANs.  Making the MAC address unique helped bring up all the DHCPv6-PD session.