Virtual Private LAN Service

This feature guide covers these topics:

• Overview
• System Requirements
• Terms and Acronyms
• Configuring VPLS
• Configuring Routing Protocols on the PE and Core Routers
• Configuring VPLS Encapsulation on CE-Facing Interfaces
• Configuring LDP Signaling for VPLS
• Configuring a VPLS Instance with BGP Signaling
• Configuring Interworking between BGP Signaling and LDP Signaling in VPLS Instances
• Configuring Multihoming on a VPLS Border Router
• Option: Selecting an LSP for the VPLS Routing Instance to Traverse
• Option: Configuring VPLS Multihoming with BGP Signaling
• Option: Configuring VPLS Traffic Flooding over a Point-to-Multipoint LSP
• Option: Configuring Automatic Site Selection
• Option: Configuring VPLS to Use LSI Interfaces
• Option: Configuring Tunnel Services on MX-series Routers
• Configuring Integrated Routing and Bridging in a VPLS Instance (MX-series Routers Only)
• Configuring VLAN IDs in a VPLS Instance (MX-series Routers Only)
• Defining a VPLS Firewall Policer
• Defining a VPLS Firewall Filter
• Restricting Broadcast Packets in VPLS
• Option: Enabling VPLS Class of Service
• Option: Enabling VPLS Graceful Restart
• Configuring the VPLS MAC Address Timeout
• Option: Configuring VPLS Interinstance Bridging and Routing
• Option: Selecting Interfaces to Process VPLS Traffic
• Option: Limiting the Number of MAC Addresses Learned on an Interface
• Option: Optimizing VPLS Traffic Flows
• Option: Aggregated Interfaces for VPLS
• Option: Configuring VPLS Graceful Routing Engine Switchover
• Option: Configuring VPLS Nonstop Active Routing
• Configuring Nonstop Active Routing
• Synchronizing the Routing Engine Configuration
• Verifying VPLS Nonstop Active Routing Operation
• Tracing VPLS Nonstop Active Routing Synchronization Events
• Option: Configuring the Spanning Tree Protocol and VPLS on MX-series Routers
• Filtering Layer 2 Packets in a VPLS Instance (MX-series Routers Only)
• VPLS Configuration Examples
• Example: VPLS Configuration (BGP Signaling)
• Example: VPLS Configuration (BGP and LDP Interworking)
• Example: Configuring Nonstop Active Routing
• Example: Configuring Inter-AS VPLS with MAC Processing at the ASBR
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