Example: Configuring the VPLS Routing Instance

Requirements

• Before you begin, see Understanding Selective Stateless Packet-Based Services in the Junos OS Security Configuration Guide .
• Configure the interfaces that will carry the VPLS traffic between the PE router and the CE devices. See Example: Configuring Routing Interfaces on the VPLS PE Router and Example: Configuring the Interface to the VPLS CE Device.

Overview

This example describes how to create a VPLS routing instance; configure VPLS site identifier, site range, no tunnel services option, route distinguisher, and route target for the VPLS routing instance; and specify the VPLS interface to the CE router.

Note: You must specify no tunnel services in the VPLS routing instance configuration, because J Series and SRX Series devices do not support tunnel serial PICs.

Configuration

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure this example, copy the following commands, paste them into a text file, remove any line breaks, change any details necessary to match your network configuration, and then copy and paste the commands into the CLI at the [edit] hierarchy level.

Step-by-Step Procedure

1. Configure the routing instance of type VPLS.
   [edit]user@host# edit routing-instances green
2. Enable the VPLS instance type.
   [edit routing-instances green]user@host# set instance-type vpls
3. Configure the VPLS site identifier and range for the VPLS routing instance.
   [edit routing-instances green protocols vpls]user@host# set site-range 10 site R3 site-identifier 2
4. Configure the no-tunnel-services option for the VPLS routing instance.
   [edit routing-instances green protocols vpls]user@host# set no-tunnel-services
5. Configure the route distinguisher.
   [edit routing-instances green]user@host# set route-distinguisher 10.255.7.1:1
6. Configure the route target.
   [edit routing-instances green]user@host# set vrf-target target:11111:1
7. Specify the VPLS interface to the CE router.
   [edit routing-instances green]user@host# set instance-type vpls interface ge-1/2/1.0

Results

From configuration mode, confirm your configuration by entering the show routing-instances green command. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the configuration instructions in this example to correct it.

If you are done configuring the device, enter commit from configuration mode.

Verification

To confirm that the configuration is working properly, perform these tasks:

• Verifying VPLS Routing Instance Is Configured
• Verifying VPLS Routing Attributes Are Configured

Verifying VPLS Routing Instance Is Configured

Purpose

Verify that the VPLS routing instance is configured.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show routing-instances command.

Verifying VPLS Routing Attributes Are Configured

Purpose

Verify that attributes such as VPLS site identifier, site range, no tunnel services option, route distinguisher, and route target for the VPLS routing instance are configured.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show routing-instances green protocols vpls command.