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VLAN Support on a PPPoE Interface

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ReleaseModification
5.6.0PPPoE VLAN support introduced

VLAN support on a PPPoE interface is enabled by configuring the target-interface as <base-eth-interface>.<vlan-id>. For example, if the DSL modem is connected to the Ethernet interface eth0 on the system, and the ISP requires using VLAN tag 1 for the PPPoE connection, the target-interface to configure is eth0.1.

Example Configuration:

device-interface pppoe-dev
name pppoe-dev
type pppoe
target-interface eth0.1
pppoe
user-name username
password password
authentication-protocol chap
exit
enabled true
network-interface pppoe-intf
name pppoe-intf
source-nat true
exit
note

PPPoE interfaces are natively Linux interfaces. The SSR uses a set of scripts (running in Linux) to manage the PPPoE interface and leverages KNI, iptable rules, and network namespace to exchange packets with the PPPoE interface.

For additional information about configuring PPPoE interfaces, see Configuring PPPoE.

To further illustrate the use of the PPPoE VLAN tag, the following configuration snippet shows the difference between a non-VLAN tagged interface and two tagged interfaces.

device-interface pppoe-dev-1
name pppoe-dev-1
description "PPPoE device NOT using VLAN"
type pppoe
target-interface eth1
pppoe
user-name user1
password password1
authentication-protocol chap
exit
network-interface pppoe-intf-1
name pppoe-intf-1
source-nat true
exit
exit
device-interface pppoe-dev-2
name pppoe-dev-2
description "PPPoE device using VLAN 0"
type pppoe
target-interface eth1.0
pppoe
user-name user2
password password2
authentication-protocol chap
exit
network-interface pppoe-intf-2
name pppoe-intf-2
source-nat true
exit
exit
device-interface pppoe-dev-3
name pppoe-dev-3
description "PPPoE device using VLAN 100"
type pppoe
target-interface eth1.100
pppoe
user-name user3
password password3
authentication-protocol chap
exit
network-interface pppoe-intf-3
name pppoe-intf-3
source-nat true
exit
exit