Common Configuration Tasks

Prerequisites

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:

  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