Solved: Re: 3750ME suppport VPLS?

mazlan.alatif · ‎02-17-2006

Hi,

Can i know wther cat3750Me support for VPLS? I would like to design MetroE using cat3750 as PE.

We tried using EoMPLS but it seems its only for point to point. We try to find solution for multipoint/distribution PE (cat3750). Can VPLS do this or is there other way?

pkhatri · ‎02-17-2006

Hi Mazlan,

It looks like VPLS is the solution you want. The 3750 Metro Series does support VPLS. You will need 12.2(5)SED for H-VPLS support. The switch supports H-VPLS using IEEE 802.1Q tunneling or Ethernet over multiprotocol label switching (EoMPLS).

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh.

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pkhatri · ‎02-17-2006

Yeah, Mazlan, VPLS would appear to be the answer here.

The Cisco Press book "Layer 2 VPN Architectures" (ISBN: 1-58705-168-0) has coverage of a number of L2VPN technologies, including a decent chapter on VPLS. I've found that book to be really good.

Apart from that, I have not been able to find any books that cover VPLS .. I don't believe anyone has come out with a VPLS-specific book yet...

For general info, you can also check out the following site (maintained by my company):

http://www.alcatel.com/bnd/vpls/

There are a lot of useful white papers and other documents here that you may indeed find interesting.

I've also just bought 'Metro Ethernet' by Sam Halabi (ISBN: 158705096X) - it's got a chapter on VPLS and seems to look pretty good.

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh

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pkhatri · ‎02-17-2006

Hi Mazlan,

It looks like VPLS is the solution you want. The 3750 Metro Series does support VPLS. You will need 12.2(5)SED for H-VPLS support. The switch supports H-VPLS using IEEE 802.1Q tunneling or Ethernet over multiprotocol label switching (EoMPLS).

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh.

mazlan.alatif · ‎02-17-2006

Hi Paresh,

Thank you for the anwser. So it seems that VPLS is the best solution instead of EoMPLS? I work with ISP and we want to deploy cat3750 all over country to run MetroE services and i guess VPLS can do this.

By the way any suggestion from you on good reading material for VPLS? I tried seacrhin in CCO but nothing much. Also no config sample found :(

--mazlan

pkhatri · ‎02-17-2006

Yeah, Mazlan, VPLS would appear to be the answer here.

The Cisco Press book "Layer 2 VPN Architectures" (ISBN: 1-58705-168-0) has coverage of a number of L2VPN technologies, including a decent chapter on VPLS. I've found that book to be really good.

Apart from that, I have not been able to find any books that cover VPLS .. I don't believe anyone has come out with a VPLS-specific book yet...

For general info, you can also check out the following site (maintained by my company):

http://www.alcatel.com/bnd/vpls/

There are a lot of useful white papers and other documents here that you may indeed find interesting.

I've also just bought 'Metro Ethernet' by Sam Halabi (ISBN: 158705096X) - it's got a chapter on VPLS and seems to look pretty good.

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh

mazlan.alatif · ‎02-17-2006

Hi Paresh,

Thank you very much... you really help me here :) .. And thanks for the recommendations.. Will keep posting if I find any difficluties in deploying our MetroE and VPLS.

--mazlan

mazlan.alatif · ‎02-17-2006

Hi Paresh,

I already finished reading The Cisco Press book "Layer 2 VPN Architectures" Chapter 15 VPLS.

Thanks for recommending me with a simple but great book. Easy to understand and complete with sample.

This helps and make my work easy :) Wish I found this book when i tried to test EoMPLS yesterday.. great example..

--mazlan