[j-nsp] Juniper and Cisco - BGP MPLS L2VPN VPLS interoperability

[Aaron]

I finally got a working config that does not break my ME3600's like I mentioned earlier.  I'll share offline if you wish to know details.  Seems that the routing-instance protocol vpls worked for what I was trying to do  ...not l2vpn.

Apparently I'm running RFC4761 -  BGP AD w/BGP Sig

I added a third PE to the vpls.  I added an ME3600 (running IOS 15.4(2)S) as a PE in the VPLS with the ACX and MX.  It's fine.  All 3 have CE switches behind them and CE's are all talking.

Now I have a problem were adding an ASR9006 as a 4th PE to the VPLS ELAN shows that the MTU's are not being discovered of the Juniper PE's, but the 9k does discover the Cisco Me3600 PE MTU and is ok.

Is there something I need to configure on the Juniper VPLS PE's to cause them to signal to the Cisco ASR9k what the Juniper PE's MTU is ?  Strange that the ME3600 discovers the ACX and MX MTU's are 1500 BUT the 9k does not discover MTU's of Junipers.  Maybe I need to do something on the 9k side ... ?

See below that Neighbors to Junipers are down, but Cisco is up.

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:eng-lab-9k-1(config-l2vpn-bg-bd-vfi)#do sh l2vpn br gr v100
Fri Dec  4 15:02:54.896 CST
Legend: pp = Partially Programmed.
Bridge group: v100, bridge-domain: v100, id: 11, state: up, ShgId: 0, MSTi: 0
  Aging: 300 s, MAC limit: 4000, Action: none, Notification: syslog
  Filter MAC addresses: 0
  ACs: 1 (1 up), VFIs: 1, PWs: 3 (1 up), PBBs: 0 (0 up)
  List of ACs:
    BV100, state: up, BVI MAC addresses: 1
  List of Access PWs:
  List of VFIs:
    VFI v100 (up)
      Neighbor 10.101.12.245 pw-id 10100, state: down, Static MAC addresses: 0
      Neighbor 10.101.12.248 pw-id 10100, state: down, Static MAC addresses: 0
      Neighbor 10.101.12.250 pw-id 10100, state: up, Static MAC addresses: 0

.... juniper xconnects are down with unknown remote side MTU of junipers... cisco me3600 pw is up and ce's can ping.  me3600 ce can ping "ce" bvi on 9k.

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:eng-lab-9k-1(config-l2vpn-bg-bd-vfi)#do sh l2vpn br gr v100 detail | in "ACs|rror|MTU|eer|PW: nei|Bridge"
Fri Dec  4 15:07:01.960 CST
Bridge group: v100, bridge-domain: v100, id: 11, state: up, ShgId: 0, MSTi: 0
  Bridge MTU: 1500
  ACs: 1 (1 up), VFIs: 1, PWs: 3 (1 up), PBBs: 0 (0 up)
  List of ACs:
      MTU 1514; XC ID 0x80000015; interworking none
      PW: neighbor 10.101.12.245, PW ID 10100, state is down ( provisioned ) (Segment-down)
          MTU          1500                           unknown
        Error: MTU mismatched
      PW: neighbor 10.101.12.248, PW ID 10100, state is down ( provisioned ) (Segment-down)
          MTU          1500                           unknown
        Error: MTU mismatched
      PW: neighbor 10.101.12.250, PW ID 10100, state is up ( established )
          MTU          1500                           1500

Aaron