Option: Configuring VPLS to Use LSI Interfaces
On M Series and T Series routers, VPLS uses tunnel-based PICs to create virtual ports on vt interfaces. If you do not have a tunnel-based PIC installed on your M Series or T Series router, you can still configure VPLS by using label-switched interfaces (LSIs) to support the virtual ports. Use of LSI interfaces requires the use of Ethernet-based PICs installed in an Enhanced FPC.
 | Note: On MX Series routers, when using VPLS with an LSI interface, you cannot enable ingress-and-egress mode CoS queuing using the traffic-manager statement. On I-chip ASIC-based DPCs in MX Series routers you can enable EXP classification on traffic entering core facing VPLS LSI interfaces using the classifiers statement. |
To use LSI interfaces for VPLS instead of vt interfaces, include the no-tunnel-services statement at the [edit routing-instances instance-name protocols vpls] hierarchy level.
| Note: The following interface types do not support the use of LSI interfaces with VPLS:
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| Note: When VPLS is configured with the no-tunnel-services option to use an LSI interface instead of a Tunnel-PIC, statistics pertaining to VPLS traffic arriving on a PE router from the core-facing interface cannot be obtained. This is because statistics per logical LSI interface is not supported. |
