Managing Point-to-Multipoint (P2M) transport services

To display the table of P2M services, go to the Infrastructure menu section, click Management → Configuration menu next to the controller, and go to the P2M services section. Information about P2M services is displayed in the following columns of the table:

• Name is the name of the P2M service.
• Mode indicates whether a DFI (Default Forwarding Interface) is used in the P2M service, to which unknown unicast traffic is sent:
  • Classic if you do not want to use DFI. Default value.
  • DFI with FIB on root and leafs if you want to use DFI on the service interface with the root role.
  • DFI with FIB on leaf if you want to use DFI on the service interface with the root role. Service interfaces with the leaf role must be created on the same CPE device. Backup service interfaces with the leaf role must be created on the same CPE device, which must be different from the CPE device on which the primary service interfaces are created.
• MAC age (sec.) is the time period in seconds during which entries are kept in the MAC table of the controller.
• MAC learn mode is the action applied to a series of frames when the first frame is sent to the controller to learn the source MAC address:
  • Learn and flood means the controller remembers the MAC address of the source and checks for the presence of the destination MAC address in the MAC table. If the destination MAC address is not in the MAC table, the series of frames is sent to all service interfaces added to the P2M service, except for the service interface on which the series of frames originally arrived.
  • Learn and drop means the controller remembers the MAC address of the source and checks for the presence of the destination MAC address in the MAC table. If the destination MAC address is not in the MAC table, the series of frames is dropped.

  If the destination MAC address is present in the MAC table, the series of frames is sent to the destination service interface.

• MAC table size is the maximum number of entries in the MAC table on the controller.
• MAC table overload is the policy for processing new MAC addresses when the MAC table of the controller is full:
  • Flood means traffic with destination MAC addresses that have not been learned is transmitted as BUM traffic (Broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast).
  • Drop means that traffic with destination MAC addresses that have not been learned is dropped.
• Endpoints is the information about service interfaces that have been added to the P2M service:
  • Names and DPIDs of the CPE devices on which the service interfaces were created
  • Numbers of OpenFlow ports which the service interfaces are mapped to
  • Roles of the service interfaces:
    • Root means the service interface can send traffic to service interfaces with any role.
    • Leaf means the service interface can send traffic only to service interfaces with the Root role.
• Status is the status of the P2M service:
  • Up
  • Down
• Description is a brief description of the P2M service.

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

In this section Creating a P2M service Viewing statistics of a P2M service Viewing the MAC table of a P2M service Viewing and configuring the display of a P2M service topology Editing a P2M service Restarting a P2M service Deleting a P2M service

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