Creating a management VPLS for SAP protection using MPLS uplinks

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. The following tasks should be performed on both nodes providing the protected VPLS service.

Before configuring a management VPLS, first read Configuring VPLS redundancy for an introduction to the concept of management VPLS and SAP redundancy:

1. Create an SDP 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 (see Configuring Load Balancing with Management VPLS on page 414).

5. Create an SDP in the m-vpls using the SDP defined in Step 1. Ensure that this SDP runs over a protected LSP.

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.

— 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#