[c-nsp] VPLS and BPDU

[Daniel Verlouw]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> I want to tunnel BPDU over the VPLS network, as if my VPLS is stupid hub.
> But as MEF does not allow this, it must silly idea. And I'm pretty sure my
> customers expect to see BPDU pass the network transparently. I could, even
> if my access is metro L2, do MAC-rewrite/L2PT to facilitate tunneling.
>
> But surely MEF has given this lot more thought, so what am I missing?

are you talking about "EP-LAN" or "EVP-LAN" services? If "stupid hub"
means you're transparent for all customer frames including CE-vlans,
I'm assuming EP-LAN (?)
for "EP-LAN", the requirement is that BPDUs *must* be tunneled (see
flowchart in 8.1).

--
Daniel.