To configure EVPN on a VPLS site

Purpose

Use this procedure to configure EVPN parameters on a VPLS site for EVPN -VXLAN or EVPN-MPLS. VXLAN is supported on 7450 ESS, 7750 SR, and 7950 XRS nodes in chassis mode D.

Steps
 

Choose Manage→Service→Services from the NFM-P main menu. The Manage Services form opens.


Choose the required VPLS and click Properties. The VPLS Service (Edit) form opens.


On the service tree, expand Sites and click on the site on which you want to configure EVPN.


Click on the BGP tab, and then on the EVPN sub-tab.


Configure BGP EVPN.

  1. Click Create in the BGP EVPN panel. The BGP EVPN (Create) form opens.

  2. Configure the parameters, as required.

  3. Click Create in the VXLAN panel and configure the VXLAN parameters on the form that appears.

    If two EVPN VXLAN instances are created on the same VPLS, different BGP IDs should be assigned to each VXLAN.

  4. Click Create in the MPLS panel and configure the MPLS parameters on the form that appears.

    To allow for both EVPN VXLAN and EVPN MPLS to be in an Admin Up state on the same VPLS, different BGP IDs should be assigned to VXLAN and MPLS.

  5. Click Create in the Segment Routing V6 panel and configure the parameters on the form that appears.

  6. Click OK and confirm to close the form.


Configure a network identifier for the VXLAN.

  1. Click Create in the VXLAN panel. The VXLAN (Create) form opens.

  2. Configure the network identifier.

  3. Select a policy in the Network Ingress QoS Policy panel.

  4. Select a queue group in the Forwarding Plane Queue Group panel.

  5. Configure the Forwarding Plane Queue Group Instance ID parameter.

  6. Configure the Assisted Replication Type parameter as needed. An assisted replication IP address must be previously configured in the NE properties.

  7. Click OK and confirm to close the form.


Create one or more EVPN static MACs.

  1. Click on the EVPN Static MAC tab, and click Create. The Conditional Static Mac (Create) form opens.

  2. Configure a MAC address for the static MAC.

  3. Select a SAP in the SAP panel.

  4. Select a spoke SDP binding in the Spoke DSP Binding panel.

  5. Click OK and confirm to close the form.


Save and close the form.

End of steps