Huawei AR1200 Series - Creating a VPN Instance

No. Data
1 Data for configuring a VPN instance:
l Name of the VPN instance
l (Optional) Description of the VPN instance
l RD, VPN target attribute of the VPN instance IPv4 address families
l (Optional) Routing policy
l (Optional) Maximum number of routes permitted in the VPN instance IPv4
address families
l (Optional) Maximum number of route prefixes permitted in the VPN instance
IPv4 address family
l (Optional) The interval for logging the event that the number of routes exceeds
the threshold permitted in the VPN instance IPv4 address family
2
IP addresses through which the CE devices access the PE devices
3 Data for route configuration (static route, RIP, OSPF, IS-IS, or EBGP) between Hub-
PE and Hub-CE, and Spoke-PE and Spoke-CE
3.5.2 Creating a VPN Instance
This section describes how to configure a VPN instance to manage VPN routes.
Context
Configure the VPN instance on each Spoke-PE and Hub-PE.
Every Spoke-PE is configured with a VPN instance, while each Hub-PE is configured with the
following two VPN instances:
l VPN-in: receives and maintains all the VPNv4 routes advertised by all the Spoke-PEs.
l VPN-out: maintains the routes of all the Hub stations and Spoke stations and advertises
those routes to all the Spoke-PEs.
NOTE
l Different VPN instances on a device have different names, RDs, and description.
l Performing either Step 6 or Step 7 is recommended.
Procedure
Step 1 Run:
system-view
The system view is displayed.
Step 2 Run:
ip vpn-instance vpn-instance-name
The VPN instance is created and the VPN instance view is displayed.
Huawei AR1200 Series Enterprise Routers
Configuration Guide - VPN 3 BGP MPLS IP VPN Configuration
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