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Monitoring the status of devices in a VPLS network in a Provider’s Maintenance Domain

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Hitless upgrade support

Hitless upgrade support for IEEE 802.1ag over VLL is similar to IEEE 802.1ag hitless upgrade
support for VLAN or VPLS.

Monitoring the status of devices in a VPLS network
in a Provider’s Maintenance Domain

CFM provides capabilities to detect, verify, and isolate connectivity failures.

NOTE

When configuring 802.1ag over VPLS, if the VPLS endpoint is deleted from the configuration, the
MEP configuration is deleted under CFM without warning.

In the

Figure 13

, CFM is applied over a VPLS network; ports 1/2 and 1/3 are customer facing

networks; and port 1/1 is an uplink to a VPLS cloud.

FIGURE 13

VPLS cloud with CFM enabled