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    Applying Layer 2 Port Mirroring to Traffic Forwarded or Flooded to a VPLS Routing Instance

    You can apply a Layer 2 port-mirroring firewall filter to traffic being forwarded or flooded to a VPLS routing instance. Only packets of the specified family type and forwarded or flooded to that VPLS routing instance are mirrored.

    Before you begin, complete the following task:

    • Define a Layer 2 port-mirroring firewall filter to be applied to the traffic being forwarded to a VPLS routing instance or flooded to a bridge domain. For details, see Defining a Layer 2 Port-Mirroring Firewall Filter.

      Note: This configuration task shows two Layer_2 port-mirroring firewall filters: one filter applied to the VPLS routing instance forwarding table ingress traffic, and one filter applied to the VPLS routing instance flood table ingress traffic.

    To apply a Layer 2 port-mirroring firewall filter to the forwarding table or flood table of a VPLS routing instance:

    1. Enable configuration of the VPLS routing instance to which you want to apply a Layer 2 port-mirroring firewall filter for forwarded or flooded traffic:

      [edit]user@host# edit routing-instances routing-instance-nameuser@host# set instance-type vplsuser@host# set interface interface-nameuser@host# set route-distinguisher (as-number:number | ip-address:number)user@host# set vrf-import [policy-names]user@host# set vrf-export [policy-names]user@host# edit protocols vplsuser@host@ ... vpls-configuration ...
      For more detailed configuration information, see Configuring a VPLS Routing Instance.

    2. Enable configuration of traffic forwarding on the VPLS routing instance:

      [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols vpls]user@host# up 2[edit routing-instances routing-instance-name]user@host# edit forwarding-options

    3. Apply a Layer 2 port-mirroring firewall filter to the VPLS routing instance forwarding table or flood table.

      • To mirror packets being forwarded to the VPLS routing instance:

        [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name forwarding-options]user@host# set filter input pm-filter-for-vpls-ri-forwarded

      • To mirror packets being flooded to the VPLS routing instance:

        [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name forwarding-options]user@host# set flood input pm-filter-for-vpls-ri-flooded

    4. Verify the minimum configuration for applying a Layer 2 port-mirroring firewall filter to the forwarding table or flood table of the VPLS routing instance:

      [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name forwarding-options]user@host# top[edit]user@host# show routing-instances 
      routing-instances {routing-instance-name {instance-type vpls;interface interface-name;route-distinguisher (as-number:number | ip-address:number);vrf-import [policy-names];vrf-export [policy-names];protocols {vpls {...vpls-configuration...}}forwarding-options {family vpls {filter { # Mirror ingress forwarded trafficinput pm-filter-for-vpls-ri-forwarded; }flood { # Mirror ingress flooded trafficinput pm-filter-for-vpls-ri-flooded; }}}}}
     

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    Published: 2013-02-07

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