Hi Guys
I am currently changing my network to use ospf/mpls and vpls but always see to come to a problem when I want to use vpls when the router is routed thru statically. The vpls registers but no traffic can pass thru.
Any ideas ?
I would assume you are building VPLS on loopbacks. If so, a static route to a loopback needs to be recursively resolved, since its not on a connected interface.
Post your:
/ip address exp com
/ip route exp com
/ip address
add address=192.168.5.1/24 interface=ether1-host network=192.168.5.0
add address=172.30.2.194/30 comment=wlan1 interface=wlan1 network=172.30.2.192
add address=10.255.255.15/32 interface=lobridge network=10.255.255.15
\
/ip route
add distance=1 gateway=pptp-out-host routing-mark=host
add distance=1 gateway=172.30.2.193
Ok, so you are just adding a default route statically then. I assume you can ping the VPLS peer’s loopback fine?
What frames are you sending inside the VPLS tunnel?
Also please post:
/interface exp com
/mpls exp com
/ip route pri
Can ping the loopback IP's fine
/interface wireless
set 0 disabled=no frequency=5260 l2mtu=2290 mode=station-wds name=wlan1
radio-name= rate-set=configured ssid=1
supported-rates-a/g=6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps wireless-protocol=
unspecified
set 1 country="" default-forwarding=no disabled=no frequency=5320
l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name= radio-name=
ssid=1 wireless-protocol=unspecified
set 2 band=2ghz-b default-forwarding=no disabled=no frequency=2432 hide-ssid=
yes l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name= radio-name=
ssid=y wireless-protocol=unspecified
/interface ethernet
set 0 auto-negotiation=no full-duplex=no speed=10Mbps
/interface pptp-client
add connect-to=10.255.255.1 disabled=no name=pptp-out-host password=
user=
/interface vpls
add disabled=no l2mtu=1500 mac-address=02:0B:8B:F7:A6:33 name=vpls-core
remote-peer=10.255.255.1 vpls-id=0:15
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik
/mpls ldp
set enabled=yes lsr-id=10.255.255.15 transport-address=10.255.255.15
/mpls ldp interface
add interface=wlan1
/ip route pri
Flags: X - disabled, A - active, D - dynamic, C - connect, S - static, r - rip, b - bgp, o - ospf, m - mme, B - blackhole, U - unreachable, P - prohibit
0 A S 0.0.0.0/0 pptp-out-host 1
1 A S 0.0.0.0/0 172.30.2.193 1
2 ADC 10.255.255.15/32 10.255.255.15 lobridge 0
3 ADC 172.30.2.192/30 172.30.2.194 wlan1 0
4 ADC 192.168.5.0/24 192.168.5.1 ether1-host 0
The VPLS tunnel is not bridged to anything, what kind of traffic are you sending inside the VPLS tunnel?
The wireless config is a bit strange (1 card ap-bridge with ssid=1 and another card in station-wds with ssid=1), but other then that, I see no issues.
How is the routing set up on the other router? Please post “/ip rou pri” and “/ip rou exp com” from the other router as well.
If you enable /ip neighbor discovery on the VPLS tunnel interface on both routers, when the tunnel is running, can you see the other router in /ip neighbor?
I am facing similiar problems with mpls/vpls on static routing. Anyone has a fix for this?
With default configuration LDP does not distribute binding for default route, so if you do not have more specific to your VPLS endpoint, it will not work - I suspect this is the problem in the original report. Note that using default route for reaching VPLS endpoint and distributing binding for default route in general is asking for trouble, so you should avoid this. You must configure /32 routes to your VPLS endpoints along path, so that proper LSP can be established - this happens automatically when using OSPF with redistribute-connected.