Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Multiprotocol Label Switch (MPLS) Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 474)

450 Multi-Service IronWare Multiprotocol Label Switch (MPLS) Configuration Guide
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How VPLS works
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NOTE
MPLS cannot be configured on the system globally when a NI-MLX-10Gx8-D card is installed.
How VPLS works
Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) enhances the point-to-point connectivity defined in the
Draft-Martini IETF documents by specifying a method for virtual circuits (VCs) to provide
point-to-multipoint connectivity across the MPLS domain, allowing traffic to flow between remotely
connected sites as if the sites were connected by a Layer 2 switch.
VPLS Raw Pass Through
Mode Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VPLS CPU Protection Yes Yes No No No No No
VLAN Translation Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
VPLS MTUs Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Dynamic LAG support for
VPLS endpoints Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Flooding Layer 2 BPDUs
with a VPLS Instance Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
VPLS MTU Enforcement Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
VPLS Local Switching Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
MPLS VPLS Traps Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Disabling Syslog Messages
for MPLS VPLS Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Local VPLS Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
VC label allocation
managed by MPLS Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
VPLS LDP Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
VPLS FID sharing Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Extended Counters
support for VPLS Yes Yes No No No No No
VPLS VLL Raw Mode
Interoperability Extensions Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Configurable VPLS MAC
Aging Timer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TABLE 65 Supported Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) features (Continued)
Feature supported Brocade
NetIron
XMR Series Brocade
MLX
Series Brocade
NetIron
CES 2000
Series
BASE
package Brocade
NetIron
CES 2000
Series
ME_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron
CES 2000
Series
L3_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron
CER 2000
Series
Base
package Brocade
NetIron
CER 2000
Series
Advanced
Services
package