HP 10500 SERIES Configuration Manual page 200

The public tunnel can be an LSP, MPLS TE, or GRE tunnel. For more information about LSP and
MPLS TE tunnels, see
about GRE tunnels, see Layer 3—IP Services Configuration Guide.
If multiple public tunnels exist between two PEs, you can configure a tunneling policy to control
tunnel selection. For more information about tunneling policy, see
Set up a VC to identify customer networks.
2.
To set up a VC, the two PEs assign VC labels to each other to set up a pair of unidirectional LSPs
in opposite directions. By VC setup mode, MPLS L2VPN can be implemented in Circuit Cross
Connect (CCC) mode, Static Virtual Circuit (SVC) mode, Martini mode, or Kompella mode. For
more information, see
Set up ACs and bind the ACs to the VC, so the PEs can forward user packets from ACs through the
3.
VC:
Set up an AC: Configure the link layer protocol on a PE and the connected CE to set up a link
a.
layer connection (such as a PPP connection) between the PE and the CE.
Bind the AC to the VC: You can bind a service instance to the VC. After the binding, the PE
b.
forwards packets received from the AC to the bound VC, and forwards packets received from
the bound VC to the AC.
Packet forwarding process
MPLS L2VPN implements transparent transmisstion of Layer 2 user packets over an MPLS or IP backbone
by encapsulating user packets with a VC label and a tunnel tag .
The tunnel tag is used to transfer packets from one PE to another. If the public tunnel is an LSP tunnel
•
or an MPLS TE tunnel, the tunnel tag is an MPLS label. If the public tunnel is a GRE tunnel, the tunnel
tag is the GRE header and the transport protocol packet header.
• The VC label identifies a Layer 2 connection to a CE. When receiving a packet from the backbone,
a PE forwards the packet to a CE identified by the VC label.
Figure 3 Packet forwarding process
T V
PE 1
L2PDU
CE 1
L2 PDU: Layer 2 protocol data unit.
T represents a tunnel tag. V represents a VC label.
As shown in
After PE 1 receives a Layer 2 packet from CE 1, it adds a VC label to the packet according to the
1.
VC bound to the AC, searches for the public tunnel, adds a tunnel tag to the packet, and then
forwards the packet to the P device.
The P device forwards the packet to PE 2 according to the tunnel tag.
2.
"Configuring basic
"Implementation of MPLS
P
L2PDU
Figure 3, MPLS L2VPN forwards packets in the following steps:
MPLS" and "Configuring MPLS
L2VPN."
T V L2PDU
PE 2
L2PDU
CE 2
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TE." For more information
"Configuring MPLS L3VPN."