Common configuration tasks

About this task

This task provides a brief overview of the actions that must be performed to configure both local and distributed VPLS services and provides the CLI commands.

For VPLS services the procedure to be followed is presented below.

Procedure

  1. Associate VPLS service with a customer ID.
  2. Define SAPs:

    • Select nodes and ports

    • Optional — Select QoS policies other than the default (configured in config>qos context)

    • Optional — Select filter policies (configured in config>filter context)

    • Optional — Select accounting policy (configured in config>log context)

  3. Associate SDPs for (distributed services).
  4. Modify STP default parameters (optional) (see VPLS and spanning tree protocol)
  5. Enable the service.
Parent topic: Configuring a VPLS service with CLI