I Spent Three Days Getting Nokia and Juniper VPLS to Talk. Here’s What Actually Works.
Sabyasachi KarJun 18, 2026 · 13 min read · Members
A field report on cross-vendor VPLS BGP auto-discovery, FEC 128 vs FEC 129 dead-ends, and the one Nokia knob that fixes everything.
How This Started
It was supposed to be a quick lab task. Stand up VPLS between five Nokia SR OS boxes and one Juniper MX, prove the data plane works, hand it off to the senior engineers, go home.
That was Monday.
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