Common configuration tasks

About this task

This section provides a brief overview of the tasks that must be performed to configure a VPRN service and provides the CLI commands.

Procedure

  1. Associate a VPRN service with a customer ID.
  2. Optionally define an autonomous system.
  3. Define a route distinguisher (mandatory).
  4. Define VRF route-target associations or VRF import/export policies.
  5. Optionally define PIM parameters.
  6. Create a subscriber interface (applies to the 7750 SR only and is optional).
  7. Create an interface.
  8. Define SAP parameters on the interface.

    • Select nodes and ports.

    • Optionally select QoS policies other than the default (configured in config>qos context).

    • Optionally select filter policies (configured in config>filter context).

    • Optionally select accounting policy (configured in config>log context).

    • Optionally configure DHCP features. (applies to the 7450 ESS and 7750 SR)

  9. Optionally define BGP parameters.
    BGP must be enabled in the config>router>bgp context.
  10. Optionally define RIP parameters.
  11. Optionally spoke SDP parameters.
  12. Optionally create confederation autonomous systems within an AS.
  13. Enable the service.
Parent topic: Configuring a VPRN service with CLI