Ok, so then you could in theory just leave the site-range command out of a VPLS config in order to go by default values, unless you needed to enforce a maximum site count?
On 8 January 2014 11:56, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On (2014-01-08 00:21 +0000), Tom Storey wrote: > > Hi Tom, > >> From the reading around I have done, the site-range basically >> indicates how many sites maximum can/should exist for a given VPLS. > > Yes. > >> This tells the routers how many labels should be reserved for >> conveying data between each PE that has a site that is part of a given >> VPLS. > > No. Site range can be 64k, and not single label is assigned. Labels are > assigned on-demand, in label-block-size, to cover all seen sites, not all > possible sites. > >> If I say "site-range 10" then I shouldnt/cant provision more than 10 >> sites for that VPLS, because insufficient labels will have been >> reserved for conveying data between any PE routers beyond the first >> 10, and thus those sites will be unreachable. > > It won't allocate labels for higher sites, correct. > >> Suppose I configure all of my VPLS instances with "site-range 10" >> initially, if I need to add more sites later, I just need to go back >> and re-configure each VPLS instance to increase the number >> appropriately? > > Yes. > >> The default site-range value seems to be somewhere up in the 65,000's >> which from my reading is bad, because 65k labels will be reserved for >> that instance, which could be pretty wasteful if the VPLS only has 3-4 >> sites. > > It's sane, I don't think it should be even configurable. But maybe there is > some obscure CsC like situation where there is partial trust between two > parties and you want to ensure no one is stealing VPLS sites without paying, > only thing I can come up with. > I would keep it at maximum value. > > -- > ++ytti > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp