Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Guida Di Riferimento

Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

page 26-41

Configures a mesh binding between a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) and a Service Distribution 
Point (SDP). Mesh SDPs bound to a service are logically treated as a single bridge port for flooded traf-
fic, where flooded traffic received on any mesh SDP for the service is replicated to other ports and not 
transmitted on any mesh SDPs.

configure service vpls service-id mesh-sdp sdp-id[:vc-id] [vc-type {ether | vlan} create 

configure service vpls service-id no mesh-sdp sdp-id

An existing VPLS ID number.

An existing SDP ID number to bind to the specified service ID number.

A VC ID number used to validate the VC ID portion of each mesh SDP 
binding defined for the service. 

Specifies Ethernet as the VC type for the mesh-SDP binding.

Specifies Ethernet VLAN as the VC type for the mesh-SDP binding.

OmniSwitch 9000E

• Use the no form of this command to remove the SDP binding for the specified VPLS. Note that the 

SDP configuration is not removed, just the SDP binding with the service. Once the binding is removed, 
no packets are forwarded to the far-end router.

• Binding a service (VPLS instance) to an SDP is required to set up a Virtual Circuit (VC)/Pseudo Wire 

(PW) to the far end of the MPLS tunnel. If an SDP is not explicitly bound to a service, no far-end rout-
ers can participate in the service.

• When configuring services between OmniSwitch and SR Series routers, set the VC type to Ethernet if 

the null encapsulation type is used or to VLAN if the dot1q encapsulation type is used.

• The administrative and operational state of the SDP determines the state of that SDP for the service to 

which it is bound. 

service-id number

ether | vlan