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L2 Services

The layer 2 services carried over your network, read from device configuration and state.

Manual contents

At a glance

  1. WhereL2 Services menu.
  2. AccessL2VPN module; Spanning-Tree needs the STP module.
  3. DataCollected xconnects, VPLS or bridge domains.
/transport/xconnect
The demo estate's point to point circuits.

What the screen shows

Point to Point

Each xconnect with both ends, exportable as Excel, CSV or PDF.

VPLS List and bridge domains

Instances, their pseudowires, and each bridge domain with a Verdict column.

L2VPN Services (BETA)

Every service classified: VPLS, point to point, local bridges, needs attention, not classified, with a pseudowires tab.

LDP, VXLAN, Spanning-Tree

LDP sessions, VXLAN segments, and spanning tree per instance: root, ports, states.

What you can do

  1. 1

    Find a circuit

    Point to Point or VPLS List, then the per column search on an end, a VC ID or a description.

  2. 2

    Read spanning tree

    Spanning-Tree: pick the device and instance to see the root and each port's state.

    /spanning-tree
    The demo estate's Spanning-Tree page.

Limits and things to know

Spanning-Tree is not in the menu

In this version its entry only shows when the tenant has VPLS data. Otherwise open /spanning-tree directly.

Read next

Manual

Topology

Draw the network as the devices describe it: L2, spanning tree, routing, VPN and transport layers, filters, saved views and exports.

How-to guide

How to find which ports spanning tree is blocking

A blocking port is spanning tree doing its job. What matters is whether the ports it chose to block are the ones your design intended.

How-to guide

How to find which switch is root bridge for each VLAN

If the root bridge is not where you designed it, traffic takes a path you did not choose. Read the root for every switch and every VLAN.

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