Command Manual – NAT&URPF&VPLS 
Quidway S8500 Series Routing Switches  Chapter 3  
VPLS Configuration Commands
 
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Description 
Use the vsi command to create a VPLS instance or enter VSI view. When creating a 
VPLS instance, you must specify a locally unique VPLS instance name, and choose 
automatic discovery or manual configuration as peer discovery mechanism (manual 
configure is the default).  
Use the undo vsi command to remove the configuration. 
Related command: display vsi. 
Example 
# Create a VPLS instance named Huawei. Specify the peer discovery of the instance as 
manual configuration, the encapsulation for users is VLAN access.  
[Quidway] vsi Huawei static  
[Quidway-vsi-Huawei]  
3.1.17  vsi-id 
Syntax 
vsi-id vsi-id 
View 
VSI-LDP view 
Parameter 
vsi-id: ID for the VPLS instance, in the range of 1 to 1,024. The ID of a VPLS instance 
must be locally unique. For the VC of this VPLS, the VC-ID defaults to the VSI-ID. 
Description 
Use the vsi-id command to specify the ID of the VPLS instance. The VC-ID argument 
ranges from 1 to 4,294,967,295. By default, the VSI-ID is used as the VS-ID. 
Example 
# Set the VSI-ID of the VPLS instance Huawei to 100. 
[Quidway-vsi-Huawei-ldp] vsi-id 100