Creating a management VPLS for spoke-SDP protection

Note:

SDPs are supported on all 7210 SAS platforms as described in this document, except those operating in access-uplink mode. For 7210 SAS platforms operating in access-uplink mode, management VPLS can be used for protection of QinQ uplinks. Refer to the following example for more information.

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

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

  1. Create an SDP to the local peer node (node ALA-A2 in Figure: Example configuration for protected VPLS spoke-SDP).

  2. Create an SDP to the remote peer node (node ALA-B1 in Figure: Example configuration for protected VPLS spoke-SDP).

  3. Create a management VPLS.

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

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

  6. Create a spoke-SDP in the m-vpls using the SDP defined in Step 2.

    Optionally, modify STP parameters for load balancing.

  7. Create one or more user VPLS services with spoke-SDPs on the tunnel SDP defined by Step 2.

As long as the user spoke-SDPs created in step 7 are in this same tunnel SDP with the management spoke-SDP created in step 6, the management VPLS will protect them.

Figure: Example configuration for protected VPLS spoke-SDP

Use the following syntax to create a management VPLS for spoke-SDP protection.

— config>service# sdp sdp-id mpls create
    — far-end ip-address
    — lsp lsp-name
    — no shutdown

— vpls service-id customer customer-id [m-vpls] create
    — description description-string
    — spoke-sdp sdp-id:vc-id create
    — stp
    — no shutdown

The following is a sample VPLS configuration output.

*A:ALA-A1>config>service# info
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...
       sdp 100 mpls create
            far-end 10.0.0.30
            lsp "toALA-B1"
            no shutdown
       exit
       sdp 300 mpls create
            far-end 10.0.0.20
            lsp "toALA-A2"
            no shutdown
       exit
       vpls 101 customer 1 m-vpls create
            spoke-sdp 100:1 create
            exit
            spoke-sdp 300:1 create
            exit
            stp
            exit
            no shutdown
        exit
...
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*A:ALA-A1>config>service#
Parent topic: Configuring VPLS redundancy