How To Configure VPLS on Juniper (Basic VPLS Configuration)

In this video we'll show you how to configure a basic VPLS routing instance on Juniper devices running Junos. We have virtual MX routers acting as PE routers as well as BGP route reflectors, and then we have virtual SRX firewalls acting as CPE devices.
There are multiple layer 2 VPNs that you can configure on Juniper, for example cross-connect circuits, basic L2VPN, EVPN, VPLS, so in this tutorial we will explicitly look at configuring basic VPLS between two sites.
When you only have two sites you can also use a cross-connect circuit, but when you have more than two sites then using EVPN or VPLS is the best option if you want to establish layer 2 connectivity over your MPLS backbone network.

[@Halomaster4ever]

Thanks for this :)
The no tunnel services may explain why some L2VPN stuff hasn't been working for me on EVE. Going to have to give this a try.

[@proxymoxy1337]

awesome video, keep em coming mate

[@devangpatel5300]

Nice explanation... Req to suggest whether we need to create the separate VPLS routing-instance for each VLANs or same routing-instance can be used for all the VLANs for particular customer sites.

[@lameaveragetechies1040]

You can have multiple VLANs in a routing instance, but if you are doing service separation then having separate routing instances might be easier to troubleshoot when certain things break.

[@alokdas6385]

Great Video.

[@lameaveragetechies1040]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[@faisalnour1717]

Good videos.but please increase the font size

[@lameaveragetechies1040]

Sure, will increase the font size, thanks for the feedback!

[@dann489]

Hi! im getting this error
"error: VPLS: not an L2VPN instance"
anny suggestions?

[@lameaveragetechies1040]

Hi Dan, did you configure the correct instance-type under your VPLS routing instance?

[@choi3759]

root@SITE-A-ROUTE# show
instance-type vpls;
protocols {
vpls {
site SITEA {
site-identifier 1;
}
site-range 10;
no-tunnel-services;
}
}
interface ge-0/0/2.0;
route-distinguisher 65535:512;
vrf-target target:65535:512;
[edit routing-instances VPLS]
root@SITE-A-ROUTE# commit
[edit routing-instances VPLS protocols]
'vpls'
L2VPN/VPLS: MPLS must be enabled to run L2VPN instances
error: configuration check-out failed
[edit routing-instances VPLS]
root@SITE-A-ROUTE#
Do you have any idea for this error?

[@lameaveragetechies1040]

Hi, if you have a look at @2:17, do you have your router setup for MPLS? And your BGP also setup as such?

[@lameaveragetechies1040]

It might be the "set chassis network-services ip" command that is missing that is causing this error. If you are doing this on a virtual device you might need to install a license as well. You should be able to get a free license from Juniper if you sign up for an evaluation license.