[AusNOG] VPLS Router Support

[Tim Nagy]

Hi Guys,

We do support VPLS across the JUNOS-based range, except the EX-Series
(switches).

There are a few caveats on the SRX and J-Series, though, which can be
found here:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos-security/junos-security10
.1/junos-security-swconfig-interfaces-and-routing/vpls-exceptions-jserie
s-section.html#vpls-exceptions-jseries-section

According to that, we don't *support* LDP-signaled VPLS on SRX branch,
but if you try it out, Ben, let us know how it goes. We do support
LDP-signaled VPLS on all the other routers, as well as LDP to BGP
interworking if you have a mixture of both.

VPLS on the branch SRX is pretty cool. Like Ben says, BGP does scale
well for multiple VPLS sites.

Regards,
Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ben Dale
Sent: Monday, 19 April 2010 11:13 AM
To: Ryan Benson
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VPLS Router Support

Hi Ryan,

Juniper support VPLS across the board right down to their low-end branch
office SRXs.  The caveat used to be that you had to be using
BGP-signalled VPLS (RFC 4761) rather than LDP-signalled (RFC 4762), but
I just had a look and my little SRX210 and it seems to be accepting the
LDP-centric commands just fine*.  BGP-signalled is actually pretty nice
when you want to roll out a single VPN with even a modest (10+) number
of sites (targeted LDP starts getting messy fast).

Cheers,

Ben

* which doesn't always mean anything - when I get some spare time, I
think I'll test this for real.

On 19/04/2010, at 10:25 AM, Ryan Benson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Has anyone got any recommendations on good kit that supports VPLS? I
> can see I will have to use 7600's and upwards to support this on CISCO
> but does anyone have any views on any other vendors, Huawei, Juniper,
> Ericsson...?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -R
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