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21. Select the
Manual Session
After successful tunnel connection and establishment, individual sessions can be created. 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.
22. Refer to the following manual session configurations to determine whether a session should be created or modified:
IP Address
Local Session ID
MTU
Name
Remote Session ID
23. Select
Add
to create a new manual session,
selected manual session.
tab.
Figure 5-45 Network - L2TPv3 screen - Manual Session tab
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.
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.
Displays each sessions's maximum transmission unit (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.
Lists the name assigned to each listed manual session.
Lists the remote session ID passed in the establishment of the tunnel session.
Edit
to modify an existing session configuration or
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Delete
to remove a
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