Technical Documentation

Base Configuration for N-PE Device to be Used in Multipoint Service

An N-PE device to be used in a multipoint service must have the following entities configured before you assign the N-PE role to the device:

  • Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to the network core
  • Loopback interface
  • Routing options
  • MPLS protocol
  • BGP protocol
  • ospf protocol
  • ldp protocol

A sample configuration follows. The N-PE device in this example has just one interface to the network core. In a more complex network in which the N-PE device connects to more than one P device, you would need to configure multiple interfaces.

interfaces {
    ge-0/0/0 {
        unit 0 {
            family inet {
                address 10.1.22.2/30;
            }
            family mpls;
        }
    }

    }
    lo0 {
        unit 0 {
            family inet {
                address 192.168.1.30/32;
            }
        }           
    }

}
routing-options {
    autonomous-system 65410;
}
protocols {
    mpls {
        interface ge-0/0/0.0;
        interface lo0.0;
    }
    bgp {
        group CA-Peer {
            type internal;
            local-address 192.168.1.30;
            family l2vpn {
                signaling;
            }
            neighbor 192.168.1.40;
            neighbor 192.168.1.10;
            neighbor 192.168.1.20;
            neighbor 192.168.1.50;
            neighbor 192.168.1.60;
        }
    }
    ospf {
        traffic-engineering;
        area 0.0.0.0 {
            interface lo0.0 {
                passive;
            }       
            interface ge-0/0/0.0;
    }
    ldp {
        interface ge-0/0/0.0;
        interface lo0.0;
    }
}

Published: 2010-03-11