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Layer 3 Interface
Configure an Ethernet Layer 3 interface to which you
can route traffic.
- Network > Interfaces > Ethernet
Configure an Ethernet Layer 3 interface to which
you can route traffic.
Layer 3 Interface Settings | Configured In | Description |
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Interface Name | Layer3 Interface | The read-only Interface Name field displays
the name of the physical interface you selected. |
Comment | Enter a user-friendly description of the interface. | |
Interface Type | Select Layer3 . | |
NetFlow Profile | If you want to export unidirectional IP traffic that traverses an
ingress interface to a NetFlow server, select the NetFlow profile or
select NetFlow Profile to create a new
profile (see Device > Server Profiles > NetFlow). Select
None to remove the current NetFlow server
assignment from the interface. | |
Virtual Router | Layer3 Interface Config | Assign a virtual router to the interface, or click Virtual
Router to define a new one (see Network > Virtual Routers). Select
None to remove the current virtual router
assignment from the interface. |
Logical Router | Assign a logical router to the interface, or click Logical
Router to define a new one (see Network > Routing >
Logical Routers). Select None to
remove the current logical router assignment from the interface. | |
Virtual System | If the firewall supports multiple virtual systems and that capability
is enabled, select a virtual system (vsys) for the interface or
select Virtual System to define a new
vsys. | |
Security Zone | Select a security zone for the interface or select
Zone to define a new zone. Select
None to remove the current zone
assignment from the interface. | |
Enable SD-WAN | Layer3 Interface IPv4 | Select Enable SD-WAN to enable SD-WAN
functionality for the Ethernet interface. |
Enable Bonjour Reflector | ( PA-220, PA-800, and PA-3200 series only ) When you enable
this option, the firewall forwards Bonjour multicast advertisements
and queries received on and forwarded to this interface to all other
L3 and AE interfaces and subinterfaces where you enable this option.
This helps ensure user access and device discoverability in network
environments that use segmentation to route traffic for security or
administrative purposes. You can enable this option on up to 16
interfaces. | |
IP | Layer3 Interface IPv4, Type = Static | Add and perform one of the following steps to
specify a static IP address and network mask for the interface or AE
interface.
You can enter multiple IP addresses for the interface. The forwarding
information base (FIB) your system uses determines the maximum
number of IP addresses. Delete an IP address when you no longer need
it. |
Next Hop Gateway | If you selected Enable SD-WAN , enter the IPv4
address of the SD-WAN gateway. | |
Enable | Layer3 Interface IPv4 General, Type = PPPoE | Select Enable to activate the interface for
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) termination. The
interface is a PPPoE termination point to support connectivity in a
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) environment where there is a DSL modem
but no other PPPoE device to terminate the connection. |
Username | Enter the username your ISP provided for the point-to-point
connection. | |
Password and Confirm Password | Enter the password and confirm the password. | |
Show PPPoE Client Runtime Info | Select to view information about the PPPoE interface. | |
Authentication | Layer3 Interface IPv4 Advanced, Type = PPPoE | Select an authentication method:
|
Static Address | Request from the PPPoE server a desired IPv4 address. PPPoE server
may assign that address or another address. | |
automatically create default route pointing to peer | Select this option to automatically create a default route that
points to the default gateway that the PPPoE server provides. | |
Default Route Metric | Enter the default route metric (priority level) for the PPPoE
connection (default is 10). A route with a lower number has higher
priority during route selection. For example, a route with a metric
of 10 is used before a route with a metric of 100. | |
Access Concentrator | If your ISP provided the name of an Access Concentrator, enter it.
Firewall will connect with this Access Concentrator on the IPS end.
This is a string value of 0 to 255 characters. | |
Service | Firewall (PPPoE client) can provide the desired service request to
the PPPoE server. It is a string value of 0 to 255 characters. | |
Passive | Firewall (PPPOE client) waits for the PPPoE server to initiate a
connection. If this is not enabled, firewall initiates a
connection. | |
Enable | Layer3 Interface IPv4, Type = DHCP Client | Enable the interface to act as a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) client and receive a dynamically assigned IP address. Firewalls that are in a high availability (HA) active/active
configuration don’t support DHCP Client. |
Automatically create default route pointing to default gateway
provided by server | Select this option to cause the firewall to create a static route to
a default gateway. The default gateway is useful when clients are
trying to access many destinations that don’t need to have routes
maintained in a routing table on the firewall. | |
Send Hostname | Select this option to assign a hostname to the DHCP client interface
and send that hostname (Option 12) to a DHCP server, which can
register the hostname with the DNS server. The DNS server can then
automatically manage hostname-to-dynamic IP address resolutions.
External hosts can identify the interface by its hostname. The
default value indicates
system-hostname , which is the firewall
hostname that you set in Device Setup Management General Settings | |
Default Route Metric | Layer3 Interface IPv4, Type = DHCP Client | Enter a default route metric (priority level) for the route between
the firewall and the DHCP server (range is 1 to 65,535; there is no
default metric). A route with a lower number has higher priority
during route selection. For example, a route with a metric of 10 is
used before a route with a metric of 100. |
Show DHCP Client Runtime Info | Select this option to see all of the settings the client has
inherited from its DHCP server, including DHCP lease status, dynamic
IP address assignment, subnet mask, gateway, and server settings
(DNS, NTP, domain, WINS, NIS, POP3, and SMTP). | |
Enable IPv6 on the interface | Layer3 Interface IPv6 | Select to enable IPv6 addressing on the interface. |
Enable SD-WAN | Select Enable SD-WAN to enable SD-WAN
functionality for the Ethernet interface. | |
Interface ID | Enter the 64-bit extended unique identifier
( EUI-64 ) in hexadecimal format (for
example, 00:26:08:FF:FE:DE:4E:29). If you leave this field blank,
the firewall uses the EUI-64 generated from the MAC address of the
physical interface. If you enable the Use interface ID as
host portion option when adding an address, the
firewall uses the interface ID as the host portion of that
address. | |
Address | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = Static | Add an IPv6 address and prefix length (for example,
2001:400:f00::1/64). Alternatively, select an existing IPv6 address
object or create a new IPv6 address object. |
Enable address on interface | Select to enable the IPv6 address on the interface. | |
Use interface ID as host portion | Select to use the Interface ID as the host
portion of the IPv6 address. | |
Anycast | Select to include routing through the nearest node. | |
Next Hop Gateway | Select a variable or enter the IPv6 address of the next hop
gateway. | |
Send Router Advertisement | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = Static | Select to enable router advertisement (RA) for this IP address. (You
must also enable the global Enable Router
Advertisement option on the interface.) For details
on RA, see Enable Router Advertisement in this table. The following
fields apply only if you Enable Router Advertisement:
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Accept Router Advertised Route | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = DHCPv6 Client | Select to allow the DHCPv6 Client to accept the RA from the DHCPv6
server. |
Default Route Metric | Enter a default route metric for the route from the interface to the
ISP; range is 1 to 65,535; default is 10. | |
Preference | Select the preference of the DHCPv6 Client interface
( low , medium , or
high ) so that, in the event you have two
interfaces (each connected to a different ISP for redundancy), you
can assign the interface to one ISP a higher preference than the
interface to the other ISP. The ISP connected to the preferred
interface will be the ISP that provides the delegated prefix to send
to a host-facing interface. If the interfaces have the same
preference, both ISPs provide a delegated prefix and the host
decides which prefix to use. | |
Enable IPv6 Address | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = DHCPv6 Client DHCPv6 Options | Enable the IPv6 Address received for this DHCPv6 Client. |
Non-Temporary Address | Request a Non-Temporary Address for the firewall to assign to this
DHCPv6 Client interface that faces the delegating router and ISP.
(This address type has a longer lifespan than a Temporary
Address). Whether you request a Non-Temporary Address or Temporary Address
for the interface is based on your discretion and the capability
of the DHCPv6 server; some servers can provide only a temporary
address. The best practice is to select both Non-Temporary
Address and Temporary Address, in which case the firewall will
prefer the Non-Temporary Address. | |
Temporary Address | Request a Temporary Address for the firewall to assign to this DHCPv6
Client interface that faces the delegating router and ISP. Select
Temporary Address for a greater level of security because the
address is intended to be used for a short period of time. | |
Rapid Commit | Select to use the DHCP process of Solicit and Reply messages, rather
than the process of Solicit, Advertise, Request, and Reply
messages. | |
Enable Prefix Delegation | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = DHCPv6 Client Prefix Delegation | Enable Prefix Delegation to allow the firewall to support prefix
delegation functionality. This means that the interface accepts a
prefix from the upstream DHCPv6 server and places the prefix into
the Prefix Pool you select, from which the firewall delegates a
prefix to a host via RA. The ability to enable or disable prefix
delegation for an interface allows the firewall to support multiple
ISPs (one ISP per interface). Enabling prefix delegation on this
interface controls which ISP provides the prefix. |
DHCP Prefix Length Hint | Select to enable the firewall to send a preferred DHCPv6 prefix
length to the DHCPv6 server. | |
DHCP Prefix Length (bits) | Enter the preferred DHCPv6 prefix length in the range from 48 to 64
bits, which is sent as the hint to the DHCPv6 server. The DHCPv6
server has the discretion to send whatever prefix length it
chooses. Requesting a prefix length of 48, for example, leaves 16 bits
remaining for subnets (64-48), which indicates you require many
subdivisions of that prefix to delegate. On the other hand
requesting a prefix length of 63 leaves 1 bit for delegating
only two subnets. Of the 128 bits, there are still 64 more bits
for host address. The interface can receive a /48 prefix, but
delegate a /64 prefix, for example, which means the firewall is
subdividing the prefix it delegates. | |
Prefix Pool Name | Enter a name for the prefix pool where the firewall stores the
received prefix. The name must be unique and contain a maximum of 63
alphanumeric characters, hyphens, periods, and underscores. Use a prefix pool name that reflects the ISP for easy
recognition. | |
Enable | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Type = PPPoEv6 Client General | Enable the interface. |
Apply IPv4 Parameters | If you already have an interface configured for PPPoE client (IPv4),
you can optionally apply the IPv4 parameters to the PPPoEv6 client.
(The parameters copied are authentication type, username, password,
access concentrator name, service, and passive setting.) If you subsequently reconfigure a parameter on the PPPoE IPv4
client, the new setting is copied to the PPPoE IPv6 client. If you
reconfigure a parameter of either client, the session is
reestablished, which causes traffic disruption. Even if you configure a PPPoE IPv4 client and a PPPoE IPv6 client
independently, you must configure the two clients with the same
authentication type, username, password, access concentrator name,
service, and passive setting. | |
Passive | If you want the PPPoEv6 client (interface) to wait for the PPPoEv6
server to initiate a connection, select Passive. If Passive isn't
selected, the interface is allowed to initiate a connection. | |
Authentication | Select the type of authentication for the interface.
If you also configured this interface as a PPPoE IPv4 client, you
must configure the two clients with the same authentication type,
username, password, access concentrator name, and service. | |
Username | Enter the username for authentication. | |
Password and Confirm Password | Enter the password and confirm the password. | |
Access Concentrator | If your ISP told you the name of the access concentrator to connect
to,enter it (a string of 0 to 255 characters). | |
Service | If you want the interface as a PPPoEv6 client to request a specific
service from the PPPoEv6 server, enter the service (a string of 0 to
255 characters). | |
Accept Router Advertised Route | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Type = PPPoEv6 Client Address Assignment | Select to allow the PPPoEv6 client to accept the Router Advertisement
(RA). |
Default Route Metric | Specify the default route metric for the router from the interface to
the ISP; range is 1 to 65,535; default is 10. | |
Preference | Set the preference of the PPPoE client interface:
High (default),
Medium , or Low . In
the event you have two interfaces (each connected to a different ISP
for redundancy), you can assign the interface to one ISP a higher
preference than the interface to the other ISP. The ISP connected to
the preferred interface will be the ISP that provides the delegated
prefix to send to a host-facing interface. If the client interfaces
have the same preference, both ISPs provide a delegated prefix and
the host decides which prefix to use. | |
Enable Autoconfig | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Type = PPPoEv6 Client Address Assignment Autoconfig | Select to have the firewall autoconfigure the IPv6 address for the
PPPoEv6 client interface using the IPv6 Control Protocol (IPv6CP)
Interface Identifier and the prefix from the RA (using SLAAC). |
Enable | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Type = PPPoEv6 Client Address Assignment DHCPv6 | Enable the PPPoEv6 client to use DHCPv6. |
Enable IPv6 Address | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Type = PPPoEv6 Client Address Assignment DHCPv6 DHCPv6 Options | Enable the PPPoEv6 client to use address assigned by the DHCPv6
server. |
Rapid Commit | Select to use the DHCPv6 process of Solicit and Reply messages (two
messages) rather than the process of Solicit, Advertise, Request,
and Reply messages (four messages). | |
DUID Type | Select the DHCPv6 Unique Identifier (DUID) type that the interface
uses to identify itself to the DHCPv6 server:
| |
Enable Prefix Delegation | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Type = PPPoEv6 Client Address Assignment DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation | If you chose DHCPv6 for address assignment, select Prefix
Delegation and Enable Prefix
Delegation . This means that the interface accepts a
prefix from the upstream DHCPv6 server and places the prefix into
the Prefix Pool, from which the firewall delegates a prefix to a
host through an RA. The ability to enable or disable prefix
delegation for an interface allows the firewall to support multiple
ISPs (one ISP per interface). Enabling prefix delegation on this
interface controls which ISP provides the prefix. The delegated
prefix is used on the host-facing interface, and its IPv6 address is
constructed with the MAC address and EUI-64 input. |
DHCP Prefix Length Hint | Select to enable the firewall to send a preferred DHCPv6 prefix
length to the DHCPv6 server. | |
DHCP Prefix Length (bits) | Enter the DHCPv6 prefix length that you prefer the DHCPv6 server to
send; range is 0 to 128; default is 48. The DHCPv6 server has the
discretion to send whatever prefix length it chooses. Requesting a prefix length of 48,
for example, leaves 16 bits remaining for subnets (64 minus 48),
which indicates you require many subdivisions of that prefix to
delegate. Requesting a prefix length of 63 leaves 1 bit for
delegating only two subnets. Of the 128 bits, there are still 64
more bits for a host address. The interface can receive a /48
prefix, but delegate a /64 prefix, for example, which means the
firewall is subdividing the prefix it delegates. | |
Prefix Pool Name | Enter the prefix pool name of the pool where the firewall stores the
received prefix. The name must be unique and contain a maximum of 63
alphanumeric characters, hyphens, periods, and underscores. Use a prefix pool name that
reflects the ISP for easy recognition. | |
Name | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = Inherited | Add a pool by entering a pool name (a maximum
of 63 alphanumeric characters, hyphens, periods, and
underscores). |
Address Type | Select one:
| |
Enable on Interface | Enable the address on the interface. | |
Prefix Pool | Select the Prefix Pool from which to get the GUA. | |
Assignment Type | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Assignment, Type = Inherited | Select the assignment type:
|
Send Router Advertisement | Select to send router advertisements (RAs) from the interface to the
LAN hosts. | |
On-Link | Select if systems that have addresses within the prefix are reachable
without a router. | |
Autonomous | Select if systems can independently create an IPv6 address by
combining the advertised prefix with an Interface ID. | |
Enable Duplicate Address Detection | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Address Resolution | Select to enable duplicate address detection (DAD), then configure
the other fields in this section. |
DAD Attempts | Specify the number of DAD attempts within the neighbor solicitation
interval ( NS Interval ) before the attempt to
identify neighbors fails (range is 1 to 10; default is 1). | |
Reachable Time (sec) | Specify the length of time, in seconds, that a neighbor remains
reachable after a successful query and response (range is 1 to
36,000; default is 30). | |
NS Interval (sec) | Specify the number of seconds for DAD attempts before failure is
indicated (range is 1 to 3,600; default is 1). | |
Enable NDP Monitoring | Select to enable Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) monitoring. When
enabled, you can select NDP ( ![]() | |
Enable Router Advertisement | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Router Advertisement, Type = Static or Type =
Inherited | To provide Neighbor Discovery on IPv6 interfaces, select and
configure the other fields in this section. IPv6 DNS clients that
receive the router advertisement (RA) messages use this
information. RA enables the firewall to act as a default gateway for IPv6 hosts
that are not statically configured and to provide the host with an
IPv6 prefix for address configuration. You can use a separate DHCPv6
server in conjunction with this feature to provide DNS and other
settings to clients. This is a global setting for the interface. If you want to set RA
options for individual IP addresses, Add and
configure an IPv6 address in the IP address table. If you set RA
options for any IPv6 address, you must Enable Router
Advertisement for the interface. |
Min Interval (sec) | Specify the minimum interval, in seconds, between RAs that the
firewall will send (range is 3 to 1,350; default is 200). The
firewall sends RAs at random intervals between the minimum and
maximum values you configure. | |
Max Interval (sec) | Specify the maximum interval, in seconds, between RAs that the
firewall will send (range is 4 to 1,800; default is 600). The
firewall sends RAs at random intervals between the minimum and
maximum values you configure. | |
Hop Limit | Specify the hop limit to apply to clients for outgoing packets (range
is 1 to 255; default is 64) or select
unspecified , which maps to a system
default. | |
Link MTU | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Router Advertisement, Type = Static or Type =
Inherited | Specify the link maximum transmission unit (MTU) to apply to clients
(range is 1,280 to 1,500) or default to
unspecified , which maps to a system
default. |
Reachable Time (ms) | Specify the reachable time (in milliseconds) that the client will use
to assume a neighbor is reachable after receiving a reachability
confirmation message (range is 0 to 3,600,000) or default to
unspecified , which maps to a system
default. | |
Retrans Time (ms) | Specify the retransmission timer that determines how long the client
will wait (in milliseconds) before retransmitting neighbor
solicitation messages (range is 0 to 4,294,967,295) or default to
unspecified , which maps to a system
default. | |
Router Lifetime (sec) | Specify how long, in seconds, the client will use the firewall as the
default gateway (range is 0 to 9,000; default is 1,800). Zero
specifies that the firewall is not the default gateway. When the
lifetime expires, the client removes the firewall entry from its
Default Router List and uses another router as the default
gateway. | |
Router Preference | If the network segment has multiple IPv6 routers, the client uses
this field to select a preferred router. Select whether the RA
advertises the firewall router as having a
High , Medium
(default), or Low priority relative to other
routers on the segment. | |
Managed Configuration | Layer3 Interface IPv6 Router Advertisement, Type = Static or Type =
Inherited | Select to indicate to the client that addresses are available via
DHCPv6. |
Other Configuration | Select to indicate to the client that other address information (for
example, DNS-related settings) is available via DHCPv6. | |
Consistency Check | Select if you want the firewall to verify that RAs sent from other
routers are advertising consistent information on the link. The
firewall logs any inconsistencies in a system log; the type is
ipv6nd . | |
Include DNS information in Router Advertisement | Layer3 Interface IPv6 DNS Support, Type = Static | DNS Support is available if you Enable Router
Advertisement on the Router Advertisement tab.Select for the firewall to send DNS information in NDP router
advertisements from this IPv6 Ethernet interface. The other DNS
Support fields (Server, Lifetime, Suffix, and Lifetime) are visible
only after you select this option. |
Server | Add one or more recursive DNS (RDNS) server
addresses for the firewall to send in NDP router advertisements from
this IPv6 Ethernet interface. RDNS servers send a series of DNS look
up requests to root DNS and authoritative DNS servers to ultimately
provide an IP address to the DNS client.You can configure a maximum of eight RDNS Servers that the firewall
sends—in order listed from top to bottom—in an NDP router
advertisement to the recipient, which then uses them in the same
order. Select a server and Move Up or
Move Down to change the order of the
servers or Delete a server from the list when
you no longer need it. | |
Lifetime | Enter the maximum number of seconds after the IPv6 DNS client
receives the router advertisement before the client can use an RDNS
server to resolve domain names (range is Max Interval
(sec) to twice Max Interval
(sec) ; default is 1,200). | |
Domain Search List | Layer3 Interface IPv6 DNS Support, Type = Static Layer3 Interface IPv6 DNS Support | Add one or more domain names (suffixes) for
the DNS search list (DNSSL). Maximum length is 255 bytes.A DNS search list is a list of domain suffixes that a DNS client
router appends (one at a time) to an unqualified domain name before
it enters the name into a DNS query, thereby using a fully qualified
domain name in the query. For example, if a DNS client tries to
submit a DNS query for the name “quality” without a suffix, the
router appends a period and the first DNS suffix from the DNS search
list to the name and transmits the DNS query. If the first DNS
suffix on the list is “company.com”, the resulting query from the
router is for the fully qualified domain name
“quality.company.com”. If the DNS query fails, the router appends the second DNS suffix from
the list to the unqualified name and transmits a new DNS query. The
router uses the DNS suffixes until a DNS lookup is successful
(ignores the remaining suffixes) or until the router has tried all
of suffixes on the list. Configure the firewall with the suffixes that you want to provide to
the DNS client router in a Neighbor Discovery DNSSL option; the DNS
client receiving the DNSSL option uses the suffixes in its
unqualified DNS queries. You can configure a maximum of 8 domain names (suffixes) for a DNS
search list option that the firewall sends—in order listed from top
to bottom—in an NDP router advertisement to the recipient, which
uses them in the same order. Select a suffix and Move
Up or Move Down to change the
order or Delete a suffix when you no longer
need it. |
Lifetime | Enter the maximum number of seconds after the IPv6 DNS client
receives the router advertisement that it can use a domain name
(suffix) on the DNS search list (range is the value of
Max Interval (sec) to twice
Max Interval (sec) ; default is
1,200). | |
DNS Recursive Name Server | Layer3 Interface IPv6 DNS Support, Type = DHCPv6 Client, PPPoEv6 Client,or
Inherited | Enable and select:
If you choose Manual ,
Add the IPv6 address of a recursive DNS
(RDNS) Server (for example,
2001:4860:4860:0:0:8888) for the firewall to send in NDP router
advertisements from this IPv6 VLAN interface. RDNS servers send a
series of DNS lookup requests to root DNS servers and authoritative
DNS servers to ultimately provide an IP address to the DNS
client.You can configure a maximum of eight RDNS servers that the firewall
sends— in the order listed from top to bottom—in an NDP router
advertisement to the recipient, which then uses them in the same
order. Select a server and Move Up or
Move Down to change the order of the
servers or Delete a server from the list when
you no longer need it. Enter a Lifetime in
seconds, which is the maximum length of time the client can use the
specific RDNS server to resolve domain names. Range is 4 to 3,600;
default is 1,200. |
Domain Search List | Layer3 Interface IPv6 DNS Support, Type = DHCPv6 Client, PPPoEv6 Client, or
Inherited | Enable and select:
If you choose Manual ,
Add and configure one or more
Domain names (suffixes) for the DNS
search list (DNSSL). The maximum suffix length is 255 bytes.A
DNS search list is a list of domain suffixes that a DNS client
router appends (one at a time) to an unqualified domain name before
it enters the name into a DNS query, thereby using a fully qualified
domain name in the DNS query. For example, if a DNS client tries to
submit a DNS query for the name “quality” without a suffix, the
router appends a period and the first DNS suffix from the DNS search
list to the name and then transmits the DNS query. If the first DNS
suffix on the list is “company.com”, the resulting DNS query from
the router is for the fully qualified domain name
“quality.company.com”. If the DNS query fails, the router
appends the second DNS suffix from the list to the unqualified name
and transmits a new DNS query. The router tries DNS suffixes until a
DNS lookup is successful (ignores the remaining suffixes) or until
the router has tried all of suffixes on the list. Configure
the firewall with the suffixes that you want to provide to the DNS
client router in a Neighbor Discovery DNSSL option; the DNS client
receiving the DNSSL option uses the suffixes in its unqualified DNS
queries. Lifetime in seconds,
which is the maximum length of time the client can use the specific
Domain Search List. Range is 4 to 3,600; default is 1,200. You can
configure a maximum of eight domain names (suffixes) for a DNS
search list that the firewall sends—in order listed from top to
bottom—in an NDP router advertisement to the recipient, which uses
those addresses in the same order. Delete a
suffix from the list when you no longer need it. |
SD-WAN Interface Status | Layer3 Interface SD-WAN | If you selected Enable SD-WAN on the
IPv4 tab, the firewall indicates
SD-WAN Interface Status: Enabled .
If you didn’t Enable SD-WAN , it indicates
Disabled . |
SD-WAN Interface Profile | Select the SD-WAN Interface Profile to apply to this Ethernet
interface or add a new SD-WAN Interface Profile. You must Enable SD-WAN for the interface
before you can apply an SD-WAN Interface Profile. | |
Upstream NAT | If your SD-WAN hub or branch is behind a device that is performing
NAT, Enable upstream NAT for the hub or
branch. | |
NAT IP Address Type | Select the type of IP address assignment and specify the IP address
or FQDN of the public-facing interface on that NAT-performing
device, or specify that DDNS derives the address. Thus, Auto VPN can
use the address as the tunnel endpoint of the hub or branch.
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Link Speed | Ethernet Interface Advanced Link Settings | Select the interface speed in Mbps, or select
auto to have the firewall automatically
determine the speed. |
Link Duplex | Select whether the interface transmission mode is full-duplex
( full ), half-duplex
(half ), or negotiated automatically
(auto ). | |
Link State | Select whether the interface status is enabled
( up ), disabled
(down ), or determined automatically
(auto ). | |
PoE Rsvd Pwr | Ethernet Interface Advanced PoE Settings ( Supported firewalls only ) | Select the amount of allocated power in Watts if PoE is enabled. |
PoE Enable | Select to enable PoE on this interface. When using Panorama, non-PoE
interfaces display the option to enable or disable PoE. To avoid a
commit failure, ensure that PoE Enable
remains selected on these non-PoE interfaces. | |
Management Profile | Layer3 Interface Advanced Other Info | Select a Management profile that defines the protocols (for example,
SSH, Telnet, and HTTP) you can use to manage the firewall over this
interface. Select None to remove the current
profile assignment from the interface. |
MTU | Enter the maximum transmission unit (MTU) in bytes for packets sent
on this interface (range is 576 to 9,192; default is 1,500). If
machines on either side of the firewall perform Path MTU Discovery
(PMTUD) and the interface receives a packet exceeding the MTU, the
firewall returns an ICMP fragmentation needed message
to the source indicating the packet is too large. | |
Adjust TCP MSS | Select to adjust the maximum segment size (MSS) to accommodate bytes
for any headers within the interface MTU byte size. The MTU byte
size minus the MSS Adjustment Size equals the MSS byte size, which
varies by IP protocol:
Use these settings to address the case where a
tunnel through the network requires a
smaller MSS. If a packet has more bytes than the MSS without
fragmentation, this setting enables the adjustment.Encapsulation adds length to headers so it helps to configure the MSS
adjustment size to allow bytes for such things as an MPLS header or
tunneled traffic that has a VLAN tag. | |
Untagged Subinterface | Select this option if the corresponding subinterfaces for this
interface aren’t tagged. | |
IP Address MAC Address | Layer3 Interface Advanced ARP Entries | To add one or more static Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries,
Add an IP address and its associated
hardware [media access control (MAC)] address. To delete an entry,
select the entry and click Delete . Static ARP
entries reduce ARP processing. |
IPv6 Address MAC Address | Layer3 Interface Advanced ND Entries | To provide neighbor information for Neighbor Discovery Protocol
(NDP), Add the IPv6 address and MAC address
of the neighbor. |
Enable NDP Proxy | Layer3 Interface Advanced NDP Proxy | Enable Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) proxy for the interface. The
firewall will respond to ND packets requesting MAC addresses for
IPv6 addresses in this list. In the ND response, the firewall sends
its own MAC address for the interface so that the firewall will
receive the packets meant for the addresses in the list. It is recommended that you enable NDP proxy if you are using Network
Prefix Translation IPv6 (NPTv6). If you selected Enable NDP Proxy , you can
filter numerous Address entries by entering a
filter and clicking Apply Filter (gray arrow). |
Address | Add one or more IPv6 addresses, IP ranges,
IPv6 subnets, or address objects for which the firewall will act as
NDP proxy. Ideally, one of these addresses is the same address as
that of the source translation in NPTv6. The order of addresses does
not matter.If the address is a subnetwork, the firewall will send an ND response
for all addresses in the subnet, so we recommend you also add the
IPv6 neighbors of the firewall and then click
Negate to instruct the firewall not to
respond to these IP addresses. | |
Negate | Negate an address to prevent NDP proxy for
that address. You can negate a subset of the specified IP address
range or IP subnet. | |
Enable LLDP | Layer3 Interface Advanced LLDP | Enable Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for the interface. LLDP
functions at the link layer to discover neighboring devices and
their capabilities by sending and receiving LLDP data units to and
from neighbors. |
LLDP Profile | Select an LLDP Profile or create a new LLDP Profile.
The profile is the way in which you configure the LLDP mode, enable
syslog and SNMP notifications, and configure the optional
Type-Length-Values (TLVs) you want transmitted to LLDP peers. | |
Settings | Layer3 Interface Advanced DDNS | Select Settings to make the DDNS fields
available to configure. |
Enable | Enable DDNS on the interface. You must initially enable DDNS to
configure it. (If your DDNS configuration is unfinished, you can
save it without enabling it so that you don’t lose your partial
configuration.) | |
Update Interval (days) | Enter the interval (in days) between updates that the firewall sends
to the DDNS server to update IP addresses mapped to FQDNs (range is
1 to 30; default is 1). The firewall also updates DDNS upon receiving a new IP address
for the interface from the DHCP server. | |
Certificate Profile | Create a Certificate
Profile to verify the DDNS service. The DDNS service
presents the firewall with a certificate signed by the certificate
authority (CA). | |
Hostname | Enter a hostname for the interface, which is registered with the DDNS
Server (for example, host123.domain123.com, or host123). The
firewall does not validate the hostname except to confirm that the
syntax uses valid characters allowed by DNS for a domain name. | |
Vendor | Layer3 Interface Advanced DDNS | Select the DDNS vendor (and version) that provides DDNS service to
this interface:
If you select an older version of a DDNS service
that the firewall indicates will be phased out by a certain date,
move to the newer version. The Name and Value
fields that follow the vendor name are vendor-specific. The
read-only fields notify you of parameters that the firewall uses to
connect to the DDNS service. Configure the other fields, such as a
password that the DDNS service provides to you and a timeout that
the firewall uses if it doesn’t receive a response from the DDNS
server. |
IPv4 Tab | Add the IPv4 addresses configured on the interface and then select
them. You can select only as many IPv4 addresses as the DDNS
provider allows. All selected IP addresses are registered with the
DDNS provider (Vendor). | |
IPv6 Tab | Add the IPv6 addresses configured on the interface and then select
them. You can select only as many IPv6 addresses as the DDNS
provider allows. All selected IP addresses are registered with the
DDNS provider (Vendor). | |
Show Runtime Info | Displays the DDNS registration: DDNS provider, resolved FQDN, and the
mapped IP address(es) with an asterisk (*) indicating the primary IP
address. Each DDNS provider has its own return codes to indicate the
status of the hostname update, and a return date, for
troubleshooting purposes. |