Creating a management VPLS for SAP protection

This section provides a brief overview of the tasks that must be performed to configure a management VPLS for SAP protection and provides the CLI commands, see Figure: Example configuration for protected VPLS SAP. The following tasks should be performed on both nodes providing the protected VPLS service:

1. Create an access uplink SAPs to the peer node.

2. Create a management VPLS.

3. Define a SAP in the m-vpls on the port toward the 7210 SAS. Note that the port must be dot1q. The SAP corresponds to the (stacked) VLAN on the 7210 SAS in which STP is active.

4. Optionally modify STP parameters for load balancing.

5. Create access uplink SAPs in the m-vpls using the access uplink SAPs defined in Step 1.

6. Enable the management VPLS service and verify that it is operationally up.

7. Create a list of VLANs on the port managed by this management VPLS.

8. Create one or more user VPLS services with SAPs on VLANs in the range defined by Step 6.

   Figure: Example configuration for protected VPLS SAP

   

— config>service# vpls service-id [customer customer-id] [create] [m-vpls] 
    — description description-string
    — sap sap-id create
    — managed-vlan-list
        — range vlan-range
        — stp
        — no shutdown

The following is a sample VPLS configuration output.

*A:ALA-1>config>service# info
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        vpls 2000 customer 6 m-vpls create
            stp
                no shutdown
            exit
            sap 1/1/1:100 create
            exit
            sap 1/1/2:200 create
            exit
            sap 1/1/3:300 create
               managed-vlan-list
                  range 1-50
            exit
            no shutdown
        exit           
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*A:ALA-1>config>service#