Managing service interfaces

Service interfaces are mapped to OpenFlow ports and are used to connect a CPE device to transport services. A service interface cannot be mapped to an OpenFlow port that is already mapped to an SD-WAN interface of the WAN type.

If you want to filter traffic packets on a service interface, you can create an Access Control List (ACL) interface that is mapped to this service interface. The ACL interface applies the specified traffic filter to the service interface. A single service interface can be mapped to at most four ACL interfaces.

To display the table of service interfaces, go to the Infrastructure menu section, click Management → Configuration menu next to the controller to which the device is connected, and in the displayed controller settings menu, go to the Service interfaces section. Information about service interfaces is displayed in the following columns of the table:

• Port is the number of the OpenFlow port to which the service interface is mapped to.
• Type is the traffic encapsulation type on the service interface.
  • Access
  • VLAN
  • Q-in-Q
  • ACL
• Description is a brief description of the service interface.
• VLAN is the outer VLAN tag of the service interface. The value in this column is only displayed for service interfaces with encapsulation types VLAN and Q-in-Q.
• Inner VLAN is the inner VLAN tag of the service interface. The value in this column is only displayed for service interfaces with encapsulation type Q-in-Q.
• Filter is the traffic filter for the ACL interface. The value in this column is only displayed for service interfaces with encapsulation type ACL.
• Name is the name of the service interface.

The actions you can perform with the table are described in the Managing solution component tables instructions.