Local And Remote Aging Timers; Disable Mac Aging; Disable Mac Learning; Unknown Mac Discard - Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR OS Service Manual

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VPLS Features

Local and Remote Aging Timers

Like a Layer 2 switch, learned MACs within a VPLS instance can be aged out if no packets are

sourced from the MAC address for a specified period of time (the aging time). In each VPLS

service instance, there are independent aging timers for locally learned MAC and remotely learned

MAC entries in the forwarding database (FIB). A local MAC address is a MAC address associated

with a SAP because it ingressed on a SAP. A remote MAC address is a MAC address received via

an SDP from another 7750 SR router for the VPLS instance. The local-age timer for the VPLS

instance specifies the aging time for locally learned MAC addresses, and the remote-age timer

specifies the aging time for remotely learned MAC addresses.

In general, the remote-age timer is set to a longer period than the local-age timer to reduce the

amount of flooding required for destination unknown MAC addresses.

The MAC aging timers can be disabled which will prevent any learned MAC entries from being

aged out of the FIB. When aging is disabled, it is still possible to manually delete or flush learned

MAC entries. Aging can be disabled for learned MAC addresses on a SAP or a spoke SDP of a

VPLS service instance.

When MAC learning is disabled, new source MAC addresses are not entered in the VPLS FIB,

whether the MAC address is local or remote. MAC learning can be disabled for individual SAPs or

Unknown MAC discard is a feature which discards all packets ingressing the service where the

destination MAC address is not in the FIB. The normal behavior is to flood these packets to all end

points in the service.

Unknown MAC discard can be used with the disable MAC learning and disable MAC aging

options to create a fixed set of MAC addresses allowed to ingress and traverse the service.

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