It seems also "mac-flush" is now available with BGP based VPLS - before that was only supposed to work with LDP based.
Possibly that is a more important improvement. > I see that there is a new "best-site" feature in Junos 12.2 for improving the > convergence time in VPLS multi-homed environments: > > http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos12.2/topics/example/vpls- > multihoming-convergence-example.html > > The site-preference election method for determining the primary vs. backup > site uses BGP signalling so that the PEs can select the highest value to > indicate which site will actively handle traffic in order to prevent loops, > thus > making the non-primary site passive. In our experience, if you commit a PE > configuration with a higher site value, VPLS converges quicker than when you > commit a PE configuration with a lower site value. > So perhaps the new "best-site" feature might help. > > But operationally, it looks like the old site-preference and "best-site" > methods for determining the primary are pretty much the same. Am I > missing something? Does the "best-site" method really improve > convergence, and if so, how so? _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
