VPLS Bridge but no traffic

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
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Hi all

I wonder if I’m going mad!

I have 2 routers connected via SSTP over the internet (could use openvpn but just testing concept for now!)

LDP configured - working
MPLS interface all, MTU 1522 (SSTP MTU set to 1600)
GRE tunnel between routers, MPLS running over it.
VPLS tunnels from both sites showing RUNNING
Each router can see each other as a “neighbour” via CDP.
VPLS interfaces in a bridge with the LAN both ends.

No traffic (apart from 400bps bursts) is passing over the VPLS tunnel.

ROS 7.11 one end 7.13 the other.

Any ideas?!

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Are you sure you can pass mtu > 1500 over your internet connection?

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Fairly sure that mpls requires a layer 2 equivalent under it, which gre isn’t.

You could perhaps use eoip, or vxlan.
Not seeing a lot of point of then running mpls over these.

You could run these 2 protocols over wireguard or ipsec (I like wireguard)
sstp is good, but not very performant.