Create Ingress and Egress Tunnels

Traffic from theGigaVUE V Series is distributed to tunnel endpoints in a monitoring session. A tunnel endpoint can be created using a standard VXLAN tunnel.

To create a new tunnel endpoint:

  1. After creating a new monitoring session, or click Edit on an existing monitoring session, the GigaVUE-FM canvas appears.
  2. In the canvas, select New > New Tunnel, drag and drop a new tunnel template to the workspace. The Add Tunnel Spec quick view appears.
  3. On the New Tunnel quick view, enter or select the required information as described in the following table.

    Field

    Description

    Alias

    The name of the tunnel endpoint.

    Note:  Do not enter spaces in the alias name.

    Description

    The description of the tunnel endpoint.

    Type

    VXLAN is the only supported tunnel type for Azure.

    Traffic Direction

    The direction of the traffic flowing through the V Series node.

    • Choose In (Decapsulation) for creating an Ingress tunnel, traffic from the source to the V Series node. Enter values for the Key.
    • Choose Out (Encapsulation) for creating an Egress tunnel from the V Series node to the destination endpoint. Select or enter values for MTU, Time to Live, DSCP, PREC, Flow Label, and Key.

    IP Version

    The version of the Internet Protocol. Select IPv4 or IPv6.

    Remote Tunnel IP

    For Ingress tunnel, Remote Tunnel IP is the IP address of the tunnel source.
    For Egress tunnel, Remote Tunnel IP is the IP address of the tunnel destination endpoint.
  4. Click Save.

To delete a tunnel, select the required tunnel and click Delete.