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, and 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 classification 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 traffic classification 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 traffic classification 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 traffic classification 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.

In this section Creating a service interface Creating an ACL interface Viewing the usage of a service interface and an ACL interface Deleting a service interface and an ACL interface

Page top