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

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

On the service tree, expand Site→L2 Access Interfaces.

Right-click on L2 Access Interfaces and choose Create B-L2 Access Interface. The B-L2 Access Interface (Create) form opens.

Configure the required parameters.

Select a transit prefix policy for the interface in the Transit Prefix Policy panel.

Select an SHG for the interface in the Split Horizon Group panel.

Note: You must configure an SHG or residential SHG for a VPLS if you plan to create a spoke circuit from this VPLS site to a VLL or another VPLS.

Click on the Port tab.

Select a port for the B-L2 access interface.

Note: The form lists only ports in access or hybrid mode. To choose a port that is not listed, you must set the Mode parameter for the port to Access or Hybrid. After you do this, the port is listed when you click Search.

CAUTION Service Disruption

The creation of a SAP that uses the same port and encapsulation values as an existing inactive MSAP fails under the following conditions:

• If you try to use the NFM-P to create a SAP, the configuration fails and the NFM-P displays an error message.

• If you use a CLI to create a SAP in a service other than the service that contains the MSAP, the configuration succeeds but the MSAP is inactive until the regular SAP is deleted. Although the NFM-P displays the SAP and MSAP, the MSAP remains inactive and consumes resources.

• If you use a CLI to create a SAP in the service that contains the MSAP, the SAP creation fails.

Nokia recommends that you delete an inactive MSAP from the NFM-P if you need to create a regular SAP on the same port using the same encapsulation values.

Configure the required parameters.

For a B-L2 access interface, only Null, dot1q, and QinQ encapsulation are supported.

When the selected port uses dot1q encapsulation, you can enable the Auto-Assign ID parameter to have the Outer Encapsulation Value parameter automatically assigned. If you choose this, the system assigns the lowest unused encapsulation value.

Note: You can set the Auto-Assign ID parameter to be the default parameter for dot1q encapsulation by enabling the Access Interface Encap Value (Dot1q only) parameter in the User Preferences form. Choose Application→ User Preferences from the main menu.

To configure the EMG:

1. Click on the Egress Multicast Group tab.

2. Select an EMG.

   Note:

   The Egress Multicast Group-L2 Interface form lists only EMGs that have the same egress filter and encapsulation type as the interface.

If the selected port uses FR encapsulation, configure Frame Relay for the interface:

1. Click on the Frame Relay tab.

2. Set the FRF-12 Mode parameter to Enabled.

3. Configure the required parameters.

To assign ingress and egress QoS policies to the interface:

1. Click on the QoS tab.

   Note:

   Items such as policies, schedulers, and filters can be applied later to multiple service components at once by selecting and right-clicking the components in the service navigation tree, choosing Properties, and configuring the parameters on the appropriate tab. This action opens a properties form in a new window for the component that was right-clicked. The navigation tree is not displayed in this new window.

2. Configure the Ingress Match QinQ Dot1P parameter.

   The Ingress Match QinQ Dot1P parameter is configurable only when the encapsulation type of the port is dot1q or QinQ.

3. Select an ingress in the Ingress Policy panel.

   If you select an access ingress policy that has a forwarding class mapped to an ingress queue group, the port that you choose for the VPLS L2 access interface must use the same access ingress queue group.

   See To configure Ethernet ports for information about configuring Ethernet ports. See Chapter 49, Policies overview for information about queue group template policies.

4. Select an ingress queue group template policy in the Forwarding Plane Redirect panel.

5. Configure the Instance ID parameter in the Forwarding Plane Redirect panel.

6. Configure the Egress Mark QinQ Top Bits Only parameter.

   The Egress Mark QinQ Top Bits Only parameters are configurable only when the encapsulation type of the port is dot1q or QinQ.

7. Select an egress policy in the Egress Policy panel.

   Note:

   If you select an access egress policy that has a forwarding class mapped to an egress queue group, the port that you choose for the VPLS L2 access interface must use the same access egress queue group.

   See To configure Ethernet ports for information about configuring Ethernet ports. See Chapter 49, Policies overview for information about queue group template policies.

8. If the port you selected in Step 9 is not an HSMDA port, go to Step 14 .

9. Configure the Packet Byte Offset (bytes) parameter. Before you can configure the parameter, you must enable the associated Override parameter.

10. Select a WRR policy in the Egress HSMDA Override panel.

11. Select an HSMDA egress secondary shaper policy in the Egress HSMDA Override panel.

12. Select an HS secondary shaper in the HS Overrides panel, if required.

13. Configure any required parameters.

To configure scheduling:

1. Click on the Schedulers tab.

   Note:

   The Schedulers tab is configurable only when a port is assigned to the interface.

2. To specify that an aggregation scheduler policy is not applied to the interface, set the Aggregation parameter to off and configure the required parameters.

   The Aggregation parameter is not configurable if the port you selected in Step 9 is an HSMDA port.

   The Aggregate Rate Limit (kbps), Frame-Based Accounting, and Limit Unused Bandwidth parameters are configurable only when there is no scheduler specified in the Egress Scheduler panel.

   The Frame-Based Accounting parameter is not configurable if the port you selected in Step 9 is an HSMDA port.

   You cannot specify an egress scheduler when the Aggregate Rate Limit (kbps) parameter is set to a value greater than zero.

3. Select and ingress and egress scheduler, and ingress and egress control policy, and an ingress and egress policer control policy.If the port you selected in Step 9 is an HSMDA port, go to Step 15 .

4. To specify that an access scheduler policy is applied to the interface, set the Aggregation parameter to on and configure the Frame-Based Accounting parameter.

   Note:

   You cannot specify an access scheduler policy if the port you selected in Step 9 is an HSMDA port. Go to Step 15 .

5. Select an aggregation scheduler in the Aggregation Scheduler panel.

To assign ingress and egress ACL filters to the interface:

Note: Only MAC filters are allowed for B-L2 Access Interfaces.

1. Click on the ACL tab.

2. Select an ingress filter in the Ingress Filter panel.

3. Select an egress filter in the Egress Filter panel.

To assign an accounting policy to the interface:

1. Click on the Accounting tab.

2. Configure the Collect Accounting Statistics and Ingress Counter Type parameters.

3. Select an accounting policy.

To configure BPDU Termination, STP, FIB, and MRP parameters for the interface:

1. Click on the Forwarding Control tab.

2. Configure the required parameters.

   When the L2 Protocol Termination parameter is set to Enabled, a list of L2PT protocols is displayed. Select all that are required.

   The Force L2PT on Managed L2 Access Interface parameter is only available for MVPLS B-L2 access interfaces. When the Force L2PT on Managed L2 Access Interface parameter is set to Enabled, a list of L2PT protocols is displayed. Select all that are required.

3. Click on the STP tab and configure the required parameters.

4. Click on the FIB tab and configure the required parameters.

5. If you are creating an MVPLS to run MSTP, the MST Instances tab is configurable. Click on the MST Instances tab to edit a SAP MST instance.

6. Select an MST instance and click Properties.

7. The B-L2 Access Interface MST Instance (Edit) form opens. Configure the required parameters.

8. Save the changes and close the form.

9. If you are configuring an MVPLS B-L2 access interface, go to Step 18 .

10. Click on the MRP tab and configure the required parameters.

    Note:

    You can view information regarding MMRP Entries by clicking on the MMRP tab.

11. Select an PBB MRP Policy.

To assign a DoS protection policy to the interface:

Note: A default DoS protection policy is automatically assigned to the interface.

1. Click on the Security tab.

2. Select an NE DoS protection policy.

3. Configure the MAC Monitoring parameter.

To assign test generation options to the interface:

1. Click on the OAM tab, then the Configuration tab.

2. Configure the required Test Generation Options parameters.

To configure a redundant VLAN range.:

Note: If an MVPLS site has SAPs that manage traffic on the associated VPLS SAPs, you must define a redundant VLAN range during SAP creation. The redundant VLAN range defines the range of VC IDs for VPLS SAPs that the MVPLS manages.

1. Click on the Redundancy tab.

2. Click Create. The RedundantVlanRange (Create) form opens.

3. Configure the required parameters.

4. Save the changes and close the form.

To configure anti-spoofing filters for the interface:

1. Click on the Anti-Spoofing tab.

2. Configure the MAC Pinning parameter.

To specify QoS policy overrides:

1. Click on the Override Policy Items tab.

   Note: The Override Policy Items tab contains a number of tabs. However, the tabs that are displayed depend on the port type that you have chosen for this interface.

   • If you configured a non-HSMDA port, then the Access Ingress Queues, Access Egress Queues, Ingress Policer, and Egress Policer tabs are active.

   • If you configured an HSMDA port, then the Access Ingress Queues, Access Egress HSMDA Queues and Ingress Policer tabs are active.

2. See To configure QoS policy overrides on an L2 or L3 access interface for information about setting policy overrides.

To associate a MEP with the B-L2 Access interface:

1. Click on the OAM tab, then on the ETH-CFM tab.

2. Perform Step 9 to Step 16 in To create MIPs and MEPs on a VPLS L2 access interface .

To assign an ANCP policy to the interface:

1. Click on the ANCP Static Map tab. The ANCP Static Map (Create) form opens.

2. Configure the ANCP String parameter.

3. Select an ANCP Policy.

4. Save the changes and close the form.

Save the changes and close the forms.

Close the Manage Services form.

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