An endpoint is required on a remote PE connecting to two dual-homed PEs to associate the active/standby pseudowires with the Epipe service. An endpoint is automatically created within the Epipe service such that active/standby pseudowires are associated with that endpoint. The creation of the endpoint occurs when bgp-vpws is enabled (and deleted when it is disabled) and so exists in both a single- and dual-homed scenario (this simplifies converting a single-homed service to a dual-homed service). The naming convention used is _tmnx_BgpVpws-x, where x is the service identifier. The automatically created endpoint has the default parameter values, although all are ignored in a BGP-VPWS service with the description field being defined by the system.
The following command does not have any effect on an automatically created VPWS endpoint:
tools perform service id <service-id> endpoint <endpoint-name> force-switchover