Just for "Google" reference... it appears not all FPGA's are upgraded after you do the upgrade on a new ASR9001 coming out of the box. After the reload following intial XR installation I needed to request the fpd upgrade a second time to get all item...

Your network is either transparant at Layer-2, or it is not. If you're offering VPLS I'd say you want your network to be completely transparent. That either means that you handle all traffic and tunnel/bridge it across your network, or you don't and ...