Profile Overrides - Manual Session

After successful tunnel connection and establishment, you can create individual sessions. Each session is a single data stream. After successful session establishment, data corresponding to that session (pseudowire) can be transferred. If a session is down, the pseudowire associated with it is shut down as well.

To override a profile's L2TPv3 manual session configuration at the device level:

  1. Select the Manual Session tab.
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    L2TPv3 Tunnel - Manual Session Configuration Screen
  2. Review the existing manual session configurations, to determine whether a session should be created or modified:

    IP Address

    Lists the IP address assigned as the local tunnel end point address, not the interface IP address. This IP is used as the tunnel source IP address. If this parameter is not specified, the source IP address is chosen automatically based on the tunnel peer IP address. This parameter is applicable when establishing the session and responding to incoming requests.

    Local Session ID

    Displays the numeric identifier assigned to each listed tunnel session. This is the pseudowire ID for the session. This pseudowire ID is sent in a session establishment message to the L2TP peer.

    MTU

    Displays each session‘s MTU. The MTU is the size (in bytes) of the largest protocol data unit the layer can pass between tunnel peers in this session. A larger MTU means processing fewer packets for the same amount of data.

    Name

    Lists the name assigned to each listed manual session.

    Remote Session ID

    Lists the remote session ID passed in the establishment of the tunnel, used a unique identifier for this tunnel session.
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